What is Known About the Effectiveness of Police Practices in Reducing Crime and Disorder?

Telep, Cody W.; Weisburd, David

doi:10.1177/1098611112447611

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“…No. A recent study in Sacramento, California demonstrated that random police deployments could be effective at micro-spatial scales (Telep and Weisburd 2012); randomly rotating officers between treatment group street blocks resulted in significant overall reductions in both calls for service and Part 1 crime incidents. Random preventive patrols have been routinely described as an ineffective crime control measure over large areas (Kelling et al 1974;Weisburd and Eck 2004;Telep and Weisburd 2012) but the rotating deployment of officers increases the unpredictability of enforcement at locations whose size encourages expected police behavior.…”

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Predictable Policing: Measuring the Crime Control Benefits of Hotspots Policing at Bus Stops

Ariel

Partridge

2016

J Quant Criminol

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Objectives A fairly robust body of evidence suggests that hotspots policing is an effective crime prevention strategy. In this paper, we present contradictory evidence of a backfiring effect.Methods In a randomized controlled trial, aimed at reducing crime and disorder, London's 'hottest' 102 bus-stops were targeted. Double patrol teams of Metropolitan Police Service uniformed officers visited the stops three times per shift (12:00-20:00), 5-times per week, for a duration of 15 min, over a 6 month period. Crucially, officers arrived and departed the bus stop on a bus, with significantly less time spent outside the bus stop setting. Outcomes were measured in terms of victim-generated crimes reported to the police and bus driver incident reports (DIRs), within targeted and catchment areas. We used adjusted Poissonregression models to compare differences in pre-and post-treatment measures of outcomes and estimated-marginal-means to illustrate the treatment effect.Results DIRs went down significantly by 37 % (p = 0.07) in the near vicinity of the bus stops (50 m), by 40 % in the 100 m catchment area (p = 0.04) and marginally and nonsignificantly in the farthest catchment (10 %; p = 0.66), compared to control conditions. However, victim-generated crimes-the primary outcome measured in previous experiments-increased by 25 % (p = 0.10) in the near vicinity, by 23 % (p = 0.08) and 11 % (p B 0.001) within the 100-150 m catchment areas, respectively. Conclusions These findings illustrate the role of bounded-rationality in everyday policing: reductions in crime are predicated on an elevated perceived risk-of-apprehension. Previous studies focused on clusters of addresses or public facilities, with police moving freely and unpredictably within the boundaries of the hotspot, but the patrol areas of officers in this experiment were limited to bus stops so offenders could anticipate their movements. Hotspots policing therefore backfires when offenders can systematically and accurately predict the temporal and spatial pattern of long-term targeting at a single location.

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Predictable Policing: Measuring the Crime Control Benefits of Hotspots Policing at Bus Stops

Ariel

Partridge

2016

J Quant Criminol

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“…Is the CV strategy cost-beneficial? Policy makers and researchers lament the lack of cost-effectiveness research associated with these and other violence reduction strategies, and they stress that the lack thereof hampers expansion and replication of innovative strategies (11). The public health approach pursued by CV is different from that of most violence reduction models.…”

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Cure Violence: A Public Health Model to Reduce Gun Violence

Butts

Roman

Bostwick

et al. 2015

Annu. Rev. Public Health

244

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Scholars and practitioners alike in recent years have suggested that real and lasting progress in the fight against gun violence requires changing the social norms and attitudes that perpetuate violence and the use of guns. The Cure Violence model is a public health approach to gun violence reduction that seeks to change individual and community attitudes and norms about gun violence. It considers gun violence to be analogous to a communicable disease that passes from person to person when left untreated. Cure Violence operates independently of, while hopefully not undermining, law enforcement. In this article, we describe the theoretical basis for the program, review existing program evaluations, identify several challenges facing evaluators, and offer directions for future research.

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“…Paying attention to lighting, implementing patrolling security guards, and operating CCTV may help with altering human behavior and ultimately prevent crime (Savard & Kennedy, 2014). However, the effectiveness of lighting may only be good insofar as it prevents specific types of crimes and not crimes in general , whereas the efficacy of patrolling security guards and CCTV regarding their deterrent value have been challenged (Telep & Weisburd, 2012;.…”

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A Routine Activity Approach: Assessing Victimization by Gender in Transit Environments and Other Public Locations

Savard¹

2018

AASoci

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The purpose of this research is to examine how transit environments and other public spaces shape women's and men's victimization for simple assault, aggravated assault, sexual assault, robbery, and kidnapping crimes. This research applies routine activities theory to examine how everyday activities shape victimization within these environments. Using data from the Federal Bureau of Investigations' 2014 National Incident-Based Reporting System, this research finds that women were more likely to be victimized in certain spaces such as shopping centers and transit terminals. Regarding certain violent crimes, it was also discovered that women were more likely to be robbed at shopping centers, grocery stores, parking lots/garages, and transit terminals. It is argued that understanding the vulnerability of simple assault, aggravated assault, sexual assault, robbery, and kidnapping victimization women have in transit environments and other public spaces may provide useful insight regarding preventing crime in these locations.

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What is Known About the Effectiveness of Police Practices in Reducing Crime and Disorder?

Cited by 133 publications

References 89 publications

Predictable Policing: Measuring the Crime Control Benefits of Hotspots Policing at Bus Stops

Predictable Policing: Measuring the Crime Control Benefits of Hotspots Policing at Bus Stops

Cure Violence: A Public Health Model to Reduce Gun Violence

A Routine Activity Approach: Assessing Victimization by Gender in Transit Environments and Other Public Locations

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