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classmates: Topic: Using the Crime Funnel
As you have learned from the ‘Crime Funnel,’ a generalization is that for every 1,000
crimes that occur, only about half are reported to the police, and even fewer are
ultimately recorded. Of these, less than 10% are detected, and only about 5-6% of
offenders will ultimately receive a court appearance. Additionally, the ‘Crime Funnel’
avows that the majority of offenders are ‘bottom level’ offenders rather than criminal elite.
It stands to reason that if more of the criminally elite could be targeted, arrested, and
prosecuted, that it could have a dramatic impact on crime. Explain how strategic
intelligence can be used to develop strategies to attack the ‘top’ of the ‘Crime Funnel,’
and subsequently making more arrests of the criminal elite in contrast to low-level
offenders. Please be sure to support your position with scholarly research and apply a
Biblical worldview or perspective.
1. Harvey Jacques- When explaining how strategic intelligence can be used to develop
strategies to attack the ‘top’ of the ‘Crime Funnel,’ It is easy to see how the “low hanging
fruit” criminal, always gets arrested. Meanwhile, the criminal elite always seems to get a
pass. Law enforcement intelligence is an important component to successfully solving
these disparities in crime, as well as criminal punishment. The “Crime Funnel” is where
law enforcement places intelligence it gathers from a variety of outside sources and data
basis. The crime funnel is a way to describe whether or not a person or persons will be
arrested and actually convicted of a crime. We would think that every serious crime
should result in a conviction that is usually not the case. Most cases are usually pleaded
out before, and to avoid, a trial with a less appropriate conviction that should have been
deserved for the crime committed. These can also be called drop-off; where you can
picture them as a picture of a funnel. Picture the funnel as the largest on top where there
are a number of incidents reported. Below that is a smaller part of the funnel being
arrests, then convictions. After convictions would come incarcerations being a small
number compared to the number of reported incidents. This intelligence is vetted and
used as a blueprint for future operations in solving crime. With that being said, affluence
and social status can be the deciding factor of if you will do jail time for any crimes you
might commit or committed. Case and point, The New England Patriots owner, Robert
Kraft was arrested in Jupiter, Florida in a massage parlor engaged in improper sexual
activity. The case, according to the Orlando Sentinel newspaper, Robert Kraft, a
widower, paying for sex acts at the Orchids of Asia spa on consecutive days in January
2019. Kraft pleaded not guilty but issued a public apology for his actions. (Orlando
Sentinel)
