Quality of life provisions that are associated with congregating and using public spaces and even living on the street impact homeless, low income women and trans people of color, and unsecured housed people, and individuals that provide outreach services to people in the community. (incite-national.org) The quality of life initiative is a practice that New York uses as one of their strategies. Their goal has been to improve quality of life policing in the past few years. (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) The Quality of life initiative focused on issues that occurred every day. The community was mainly concerned with disorderly …show more content…
(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) QOL allows police control crime by taking in offenders, getting knowledge about unsolved cases, and preventing crimes before they get worse. Statistics state that people that violate quality of life policing has a long criminal history. QOL consist of checking people’s background and their identity. When they do an extensive background check it helps police know the location of someone who is wanted on other criminal charges, has warrants, or if they have violated their parole or probation. (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) With this type of policing lets police aware of different crimes in different areas. The QOL helps police because they can ask a person being arrested about other crimes. These crimes can include where guns, drugs and where stolen items were bought and sold. The person may or may not give out the information. Quality of life policing was useful during crime violations that included beer and public urination, gambling, truancy, noise, prostitution, etc. It even stops serious crimes such as murder, robbery, and assault. This policy is also useful for police to intervene in several crimes. According to this policy people that did not have government identification would be taken to the police station to be interrogated. (nytimes.com) They would also be fingerprinted and held until arraignment. It also made summons more