Citizen participation in police crisis intervention activities.
A naturalistic experiment tested the proposition that police time could be saved in nondangerous crisis intervention calls through the use of citizen participants. Results showed that police officers who used citizen intervention spent less time per call than officers who did not. However, police time was not saved in family disturbance calls. Family disturbance control group calls were rated by police as having a higher degree of physical danger present than other calls.
Baumann
D J
DJ
Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin 78712.
Schultz
D F
DF
Brown
C
C
Paredes
R
R
Hepworth
J
J
D000328:Adult; D003256:Community Participation; D003419:Crisis Intervention; D003617:Dangerous Behavior; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D013997:Time Factors