http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/authors/2702/dan-brandon Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 17 May 2026 09:08:52 -0400 Sun, 17 May 2026 09:08:52 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1028/the-use-and-effectiveness-of-problem-oriented-policing By Dan Brandon - The question of how to lower crime rates has baffled criminologists and law enforcement officials for decades. Over the years, many different models were developed to attempt to lower crime rates. In 1979, Herman Goldstein published an article outlining a revolutionary crime fighting model. This new method was called problem-oriented policing (POP) (Cordner & Biebel, 2005, p. 155). Goldstein described problem-oriented policing as a new approach to policing focused on end results, such as lower rates of a particular crime (Eisenberg & Glasscock, 2001, p. 1). Initially, problem-oriented... Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:52 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1028/the-use-and-effectiveness-of-problem-oriented-policing