BACKGROUND OF ADOPT-A-COP SOLUTIONS, INC 

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The concept of Adopt-A-COP (Camera on Patrol) Solutions Inc. came about as a way to fund crime cameras in cities and municipalities across the U.S. The goal was to come up with a way for crime cameras and law enforcement technologies to be supported by key community stakeholders, foundations, businesses, and citizens, that allowed them to receive a tax deduction for their donation. Participants would receive the added benefit of media and marketing exposure and the opportunity to become involved in a well-organized, innovative, business rooted way of fighting crime and blight in their community. Their participation and support would also increase the quality of life for the local citizenry.

Over the years, the concept of this company has morphed into what this author refers to as a “Collaborative Crime- Fighting Solution”. This “morphing” is the result of trying to develop a company that privatizes many law enforcement related services that are traditionally done only by law enforcement. These traditional police services are either done poorly or not at all, usually due to insufficient staffing, funding, and mostly because of a lack of core knowledge relating to all existential facts of crime causation. Therefore, this author wanted to develop a company that complements the hard work police agencies and officers are doing across the U.S. The ultimate goal is to help the police operate within a more proactive model of policing, versus the reactive model police operate in today across the U.S..

After researching ways to address how police can best utilize advanced technologies to be more crime reactive or preventative, I felt our mission was still incomplete.  We then did a deep dive to examine all the direct and indirect influences affecting modern day law enforcement, such as, lack of transportation so people can get to and from work, poverty, drug and alcohol abuse.

Addressing these influences, and many more peripheral factors, helps these people be more productive members of society. In addition, realizing children are a product of their environment, we explored ways to “break the crime cycle” that is continually passed onto children from those around them responsible for influencing and nurturing their growth like parents, close relatives, and other direct relationships.

Our programs are not designed to simply give people more handouts. Our programs are designed as crime-fighting tools giving people a “hand up” and an opportunity to help themselves, if they want to, always remembering the Proverb “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”.

Lastly, we applied several “Best Business Practices” to reinforce our core beliefs and to structure a company that looks at crime, and addresses it, in a holistic and collaborative manner. By structuring our company in this way, it allows us to get to the root of the issues of crime causation without simply putting a band-aid on these issues to only address them temporarily.