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2 results foundAuthor: Loew, Cody Title: Street Lighting in Milwaukee: An Evaluation of Street Lighting Circuit Upgrade Costs and Benefits Summary: The City of Milwaukee is upgrading the circuitry in its street lighting system. Street light circuits are closed loops of wiring that carry electrical charges to power street lamps. Currently, most of Milwaukee’s street light circuits are series circuits. Since the late 1960s, however, the City has been replacing series circuits with more up-to-date “multiple,” or parallel, circuits in order to improve the reliability of the city’s street lights and reduce the City’s street light infrastructure maintenance expenses. The City of Milwaukee Budget and Management Division is investigating the efficiency and costs-savings of accelerating the street light upgrade project so that most or all circuit upgrades are completed within a six-year period. This study evaluates upgrading the remaining circuits according to the status quo rate and several alternative upgrade schedules by determining the costs and benefits that would accrue to the City and the general population of Milwaukee under each option. Fewer overall circuit outages and decreased outage time may also have the secondary effect of lowering the cost of crime and changing the public’s perception of crime. Although studies on the relationship between street lighting and crime and perceptions of crime draw generally positive conclusions (that lighting deters crime and perceptions of crime), the conclusions vary as to the magnitude and the nature of the effect. Appendix B discusses the available literature on the relationship between lighting and crime. Research on changes in public perception of crime after street light improvements also generally draws desirable conclusions, but because of the lack of data this factor was not included in the analyses. Though the circuit upgrade may reduce crime and the perception of crime, it is important to remember that the project will only improve street light reliability, as opposed to increasing the brightness of the lights or introducing new lights into Milwaukee neighborhoods. Moreover, while street lighting may act as a psychological deterrent to offenders, it ultimately does not provide a physical barrier to crime. For this reason, street lights are typically used in conjunction with a number of crime deterrence methods. Details: Madison, WI: Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009. 66p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 26, 2010 at: www.lafollette.wisc.edu/publications/workshops/2009/lights.pdf Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: Shelf Number: 119687 Keywords: Crime PreventionStreet Lighting |
Author: Chalfin, Aaron Title: Reducing Crime Through Environmental Design: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment of Street Lighting in New York City Summary: This paper offers experimental evidence that crime can be successfully reduced by changing the situational environment that potential victims and offenders face. We focus on a ubiquitous but surprisingly understudied feature of the urban landscape - street lighting - and report the first experimental evidence on the effect of street lighting on crime. Through a unique public partnership in New York City, temporary streetlights were randomly allocated to public housing developments from March through August 2016. We find evidence that communities that were assigned more lighting experienced sizable reductions in crime. After accounting for potential spatial spillovers, we find that the provision of street lights led, at a minimum, to a 36 percent reduction in nighttime outdoor index crimes. Details: Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019. 45p. Source: Internet Resource: NBER Working Paper No. 25798: Accessed May 7, 2019 at: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25798.pdf Year: 2019 Country: United States URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w25798.pdf Shelf Number: 155674 Keywords: CPTEDCrime PreventionSituational Crime PreventionStreet Lighting |