Local Evaluation Report for Los Angeles County's Mentally Ill Offender Crime Reduction (MIOCR) Program

Abstract

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Professionalising the police pragmatically

“…Successful interventions are published on the College of Policing website in the Crime Reduction Toolkit. The toolkit serves as the professional knowledge base (Hunter et al, 2017;Mitchell, 2019). To date there are over 60 interventions listed on the Crime Reduction Toolkit, these include hot spots policing, focused deterrence, Problem Oriented Policing and drink drive stops (Mitchell and Lewis, 2017;Telep and Somers, 2019;College of Policing, 2021a).…”

“…The Government have provided funding through the Economic and Social Research Council, parts of the university sector have worked with the College of Policing to create and share knowledge about what works in policing (Fleming and Wingrove, 2017;Hunter et al, 2019). The Society for Evidence Based Policing (SEBP) was founded by a group of UK police officers in 2010 to promote the use of evidence-based policing and it now has over 2800 members (Hunter et al, 2017;Murray, 2019). Since then, the SEBP and the College of Policing have become key players in both creating and promoting the use of evidencebased policing within UK police forces (Heaton and Tong, 2015).…”

“…Moreover, the evidence produced to date has had negligible impact on police practice (Lumsden and Goode, 2018). Furthermore, police officers and their managers are divided on the value of research evidence as a way of improving policing practices (Hunter et al, 2017;Fleming and Rhodes, 2018).…”

EMMIE and the What Works Centre for Crime Reduction

“…However, consultation of the Crime Reduction Toolkit does not mean it was used or whether when used it was used sensibly. Indeed, evidence is currently lacking on the extent to which the Crime Reduction Toolkit has effected positive change in policing and crime reduction (Hunter, May & Hough, 2017). To our knowledge, however, there is as yet no formal methodology for determining better or worse specific problem guides.…”

“…This chapter focuses on one member of the What Works Network: The What Works Centre for Crime Reduction (WWCCR) based in the College of Policing, the professional body for policing in England and Wales responsible for setting the standards for police recruitment, training, and development. We describe the rationale, methods and findings from a three-year research program led by University College London which supported the early work of the WWCCR (for a fuller discussion see Hunter, May & Hough, 2017). Our involvement in that research program related mainly to a systematic effort to identify, appraise, standardize, and distill research evidence for the purposes of informing policy and practice.…”