SARA Model

SARA Model
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SARA ModelIntroduction
I am currently working together with 12 members of the police service in a community with 8000 people. The community practices agriculture as its main economic activity. Besides, cases of fights among high school youths have increased in the community. Some of the fights simply started with two students from rival schools. However, these fights have since involved multiple students, who have resorted to using weapons like chains, bats and knives. This problem can be solved using the SARA Model in four steps– scanning, analysis, response, and assessment. As explained by Burton and McGregor (2018), the SARA model is a tool that uses evaluation and research tailoring approaches to devise responses to specific problems and test the validity of such interventions.
Scanning
In the case study, several issues may be listed as working together and transforming into a more significant concern. First, the fact that no efforts were taken to stop the initial fight that started with only two students may have encouraged more students to join the fight. The community is also tightly integrated, making it easy for young students from different schools to interact. Although the parents are concerned about the fights, they took no steps to stop it until the students started using weapons. Also, the resource officer may not have been observant enough to detect aggression among students and work toward correcting th…