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Results for place-based policing
6 results foundAuthor: Berk, Richard Title: Policing the Homeless: An Evaluation of Efforts to Reduce Homeless-Related Crime Summary: Police officials across the United Sates are increasingly relying on place-based approaches for crime prevention. This article examines the Safer Cities Initiative, a widely publicized place-based policing intervention implemented in Los Angeles's Skid Row and focused on crime and disorder associated with homeless encampments. Crime reduction was the goal. The police division in which the program was undertaken provides 8 years of times series data serving as the observations for the treatment condition. Four adjacent police divisions in which the program was not undertaken provide 8 years time series data serving as the observations for the comparison condition. The data are analyzed using a generalized additive model. On balance, the study found that this place-based intervention is associated with meaningful reductions in violent, property, and nuisance street crimes. There is no evidence of crime displacement. Details: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, Department of Statistics & Department of Criminology, 2009. 32p. Source: Working Paper Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: Shelf Number: 118399 Keywords: Crime PreventionDisplacementHomeless EncampmentsHomelessnessPlace-Based PolicingStreet Crimes |
Author: Weisburd, David Title: Police and the Microgeography of Crime: Scientific Evaluations on the Effectiveness of Hot Spots and Places Summary: This Technical Note suggests that the focus of policing should be on very small geographic units of analysis, such as street segments or small groups of street blocks. Crime at place is not simply a proxy for larger area or community effects; indeed, basic research evidence suggests that crime primarily occurs at very small geographic units of place. This research is reinforced by strong experimental evidence of the effectiveness of place-based policing in reducing crime and disorder so as not to displace crime to nearby areas. In addition, the perception of legitimacy should be a key component of place-based policing programs. Details: Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank, 2014. 28p. Source: Internet Resource: Technical Note No. IDB-TN-630: Accessed July 14, 2014 at: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=38634466 Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: http://idbdocs.iadb.org/wsdocs/getdocument.aspx?docnum=38634466 Shelf Number: 132666 Keywords: Crime Analysis Crime Displacement Crime Prevention Geographic Analysis Hot Spots Place-Based PolicingPolicing |
Author: Ratcliffe, Jerry H. Title: Harm-Focused Policing Summary: Many of modern policing's accountability mechanisms and performance criteria remain rooted in a narrow mandate of combating violence and property crime. Police chiefs across the country are discovering however that a focus on crime and disorder is too limiting for policing in the 21st century. While crime has decreased significantly over the last 20 years, the workload of police departments continues unabated, with growing areas of concern such as behavioral health and harmful community conditions dominating the work of departments. There is also an increasing recognition that some traditional police tactics, such as stop-and-frisk and other approaches to enforcement, come with a price in terms of community support and police legitimacy. This Ideas in American Policing paper examines how a refocus towards community harm can help police departments integrate more of their actual workload into measures of harmful places and harmful offenders. For example, drug overdoses and traffic accidents are community problems that can be tackled within a cohesive harm framework rather than addressed independent of the crime and disorder problem. This can improve targeting of police resources and choices about places and suspects who should be the object of crime reduction services. The approach can also be integrated with metrics that help police departments weigh the impact of proactive enforcement strategies against any crime control benefits. Details: Washington, DC: The Police Foundation, 2015. 12p. Source: Internet Resource: Ideas in American Policing no. 19: Accessed August 17, 2015 at: http://www.policefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/PF_IIAP_Ratcliffe_8.01.15_RGB.pdf Year: 2015 Country: United States URL: http://www.policefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/PF_IIAP_Ratcliffe_8.01.15_RGB.pdf Shelf Number: 136436 Keywords: Place-Based PolicingPolice AccountabilityPolice EffectivenessPolice PerformancePolice Reform |
Author: Erdogan, Aygun Title: Exploring Crime in a Spatial and Temporal Context: Suitable Response Strategies for Urban Planning and Policing by the Case of Etlik Police Station Zone Summary: This study explores incidents in a spatial and temporal context to achieve suitable strategies for urban planning and policing in crime prevention/reduction. For this purpose, " space " and " time " related incidents are analyzed through " new crime ecology " theories within the designed "loose-coupled" GIS-based system at "mezo"-"micro" ecological levels in a case area within Ankara Metropolis, in 2000. Its main argument is that incidents display differences in the spatial and/or temporal distribution among planned , squatter , and in-transition settlements. In exploring distribution of incidents at global and local scales , it also searches the validity and critical adaptability of the new theories developed/practiced in North American and European countries. In line with new theories , incidents at global scale displayed clustering in space and time. Generally, incidents in aggregate, concentrated mostly in planned ; less in in-transition ; least in squatter areas; and particularly during spring-summer months. However, inc idents against people and against property predominated respectively in squatter and planned areas, and between 18:00-00:00, and 00:00-08:00. As for local scale , incidents in aggregate, displayed spatial interaction ( clustering ), but no space-time interaction . Spatial distribution in time suggested that incidents persistently occur mainly in planned areas. Incidents against property displayed highest level of spatial , and also temporal clustering at global scale ; and particularly spatial clustering (particularly for commercial burglaries/thefts) and space-time clustering (for residential burglaries) at local scale. Complementarily, relatively homogenous global scale spatial distribution of incidents against people is accompanied by their non local scale spatial clustering or space-time clustering , whereby space-time dispersion was observed for simple batteries. Details: Ankara, Turkey: Middle East Technical University, 2007. 321p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed July 11, 2016 at: https://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12608961/index.pdf Year: 2007 Country: Turkey URL: https://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12608961/index.pdf Shelf Number: 139607 Keywords: Community PolicingCPTEDCrime PreventionPlace-Based PolicingSpatial Analysis of CrimeUrban Crime |
Author: Cowell, Brett M. Title: Engaging Communities One Step at a Time: Policing's Tradition of Foot Patrol as an Innovative Community Engagement Strategy Summary: Although support for foot patrol as a policing strategy has shifted over time, in modern policing foot patrol has received substantial attention (Fields & Emshwiller, 2015; Bekiempis, 2015). Primarily lauded as a potential remedy to strained relations between community members and police, the effectiveness of foot patrol at reducing crime, diminishing fear of crime, or relieving strained relations with the community is unclear. While foot patrol may hold promise as a crime reduction approach, no definitive conclusions can yet be drawn as to its effectiveness in this regard. The conflicting evidence on the effectiveness of foot patrol may relate to variation in how foot patrol is implemented in various departments. Considering that foot patrol ultimately manifests as one-onone interactions between officers and community members, differences in attitudes toward foot patrol assignments, as well as variation in the specific activities undertaken as part of foot patrol, may help explain contradictory research findings. However, few detailed descriptions outlining variation in foot patrol exist. This limitation is noteworthy as detailed descriptions of different implementations of foot patrol may also provide direction to agencies considering adopting foot patrol as part of their operational strategies. Present Study Using semi-structured interviews with officers, focus-groups of community members, and observational techniques, this report examines how five different agencies - (1) Cambridge (MA) Police Department, (2) New Haven (CT) Police Department, (3) Kalamazoo (MI) Department of Public Safety, (4) Evanston (IL) Police Department, and (5) Portland (OR) Police Bureau - utilize different foot patrol strategies to interact, engage, and build relationships with their communities. Descriptions of these agencies and their approaches are detailed, and attitudes of officers and citizens are analyzed. Organizational issues are discussed, and recommendations for agencies considering adopting foot patrol are presented. The remainder of this executive summary presents the primary findings and summarizes the key recommendations of the overall report. Key Findings Key findings of the study generally related to two distinct areas. The first area focuses on the perceived benefits of foot patrol. Given the nature of the analysis, these benefits reflect those positive characteristics noted by officers that were supported by community-member statements or through observational data. Details: Washington, DC: Police Foundation, 2016. 59p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 14, 2016 at: https://www.policefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/PF_Engaging-Comminities-One-Step-at-a-Time_Final.pdf Year: 2016 Country: United States URL: https://www.policefoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/PF_Engaging-Comminities-One-Step-at-a-Time_Final.pdf Shelf Number: 140276 Keywords: Foot PatrolPlace-Based Policing Police Patrol (U.S.)Police-Community Relations |
Author: Public Safety Strategies Group Title: San Francisco Police Department Foot Patrol Program Evaluation Report Summary: In January 2007, the Board of Supervisors (BOS) legislatively mandated that the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) implement a formal Foot Patrol Pilot Program in each of the ten Police Districts in the City. The Administrative Code Section 10A.1, (herein referred to as the Legislation), provides detailed program requirements including an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Foot Patrol Pilot Program. The Legislation mandated each police District assign at least one foot patrol Officer on two of the three daily watches for a total of twenty hours of foot patrol coverage per day or any combination of the equivalent number of hours, that the department maintain staffing records and engage the community in the process. The complete language of the Legislation is contained in the San Francisco Foot Patrol Implementation section of this report. The City commissioned the Public Safety Strategies Group (PSSG) to conduct an evaluation of the City's Foot Patrol Pilot Program. This report summarizes the process of the evaluation, the findings of the evaluation conducted by PSSG and outlines recommendations to assist the SFPD with implementing future foot patrols. The report is organized into the following sections: - Evaluation Approach - San Francisco Foot Patrol Legislation - Foot Patrol Implementation Findings - District Station Beats and Data - Recommendations for Foot Patrol Implementation Details: West Townsend, MA: Public Safety Strategies Group, 2008. 210p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 30, 2017 at: http://www.publicsafetystrategies.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/SFPD_foot_patrol_program_eval.pdf Year: 2008 Country: United States URL: http://www.publicsafetystrategies.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/SFPD_foot_patrol_program_eval.pdf Shelf Number: 147513 Keywords: Foot PatrolPlace-Based PolicingPolice PatrolPolice-Community Relations |