Typifications and Recipes for Action

• Typifications


  Constructs based on a patrol officers experience that denote what is typical about people and events routinely encountered.
• Recipes for Actions


  Actions typically taken by patrol officers in various kinds of encounter situations.
• What are the two strategies that police officers use to tailor their decision-making to the area and population they are policing?

  The two strategies that police officers use to tailor their decision-making to the area and population they are policing are:

  1. Typifications
  2. Recipes for Actions
• What is the issue with typification and recipes for actions?

  The issue with these two strategies is that the result can be racial profiling.