How will the addition of more police officers in the area help to combat crime? According to the police department, it won't. Police officials cite that while crime fell four percent in Staten Island last year, it fell considerably more in other areas. This is in spite of the fact that the NYPD sent an additional 103 police officers to work in the area, while police staffing dropped in other areas (Grace, 2005). This shows that increasing the police officers in an area may help lower some types of crime, but the costs of adding new officers may not be cost effective in light of the real drops in crime rates achieved.

One could ask why police are so positive, after such a long period of time, that this individual is the BTK killer. According to Governor Sebelius, the police in the case indicated that DNA evidence linked the suspect to the slayings. Additionally, sources close to the case stated that surveillance video lead police to the suspect, as well as to the vehicle in question (AP, 2005). While the surveillance video certainly assisted police in capturing Radar, it would be impossible to convict him without at least marginal physical evidence that linked Radar to the crime scene.

How are law enforcement agencies dealing with gang related activity? First, police in areas such as Manhattan have dismantled many of the larger drug rings, which results in less gang activity. Additionally, since New York gangs tend to display violence towards other gang members more often than toward the general public, removing large scale gang related crime activities will reduce the violence. Still further, law enforcement agencies routinely offer various workshops for parents and school officials, designed to assist them in recognizing gang related behaviors (Ross and Shin, 2005). By teaching those working most often with the younger student population, law enforcement agencies hope to slow the growth of this population's membership in gang activity.

Why is the DNA evidence so important? According to a brochure by the National Institute of Justice, DNA is unique to each individual, and can be found on many items at crime scenes, including cigarette filters, body fluids, postage stamps, and hair and blood samples. If, by using current technologies, a DNA sample from a crime scene is matched to DNA of a suspect, it is almost impossible for that suspect to have not been involved in the crime. Additionally, since DNA evidence can be found on items from a crime scene that has been dormant for decades, DNA evidence is extremely useful in solving "cold" files, or unsolved cases (NIJ, 1999). In the BTK murderer case, the crimes occurred over twenty five years ago. Since police used surveillance to obtain evidence leading to Radar's arrest, they could then use DNA matching techniques to place him at the scene of the murders. Once a match was discovered, the officers knew they had significant evidence that Radar was t

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