Michael Scott, director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing Police departments around the country use a variety of approaches to deal with crime and disorder. Problem-oriented policing is one of them. In 2001, the founder of the approach, Professor Herman Goldstein, described it this way: “Problem-oriented policing places a high value on new responses that […]

Martha Toran and her husband were once co-owners of one of the most popular night spots in town—Toran’s Tropical Hut—or Toran’s as it was affectionately called. For years everybody flocked there for lunch, happy hour and on the weekends to meet and greet the movers and shakers in the community. Toran’s was strictly for adults, […]