Garcia: Councilwoman Teri Castillo is right to question SAPD’s ‘hot spot’ policing strategy
San Antonio City Councilwoman Teri Castillo has concerns about the police department’s new “hot spot” policing strategy, which is intended to drive down violent crime.SAN ANTONIO — Politics has a way of rewarding people who deal with societal problems in a purely reactive way. It’s always going to be easier to offer short-term responses to symptoms rather than long-term responses to root causes.
When people get sick, you treat their illnesses, without doing much to address all the environmental and socioeconomic factors that lead to those conditions.thinks holistically. Whether or not you agree with the West Side councilwoman’s take on every issue, there’s no denying that she makes it a habit to think about policy in terms of underlying historical factors and long-term repercussions.
The idea is to use violent crime data to identify hot spots and have a rotating police presence in those spots at peak hours to deter criminals before they act.
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