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Re: Crime no longer falling
Some interesting points in this article - foot patrols only seem to reduce crime if they are targeted in high-crime areas.
http://whatworks.college.police.uk/R...ble_patrol.pdf
Quote:
Reviews of the best evidence of ‘what works’ in policing to reduce crime have
highlighted that visible police patrol can reduce crime, but only if it is specifically
targeted to crime hotspots (high crime locations) (Sherman and Eck 2002;
Weisburd and Eck 2004). One trial1
, carried out in the Minneapolis Police
Department, tested the impact of directed police patrols in crime hotspots at ‘hot
times’ (Sherman and Weisburd 1995). Over a ten-month period, 55 experimental
hotspots received twice as much police patrol as a similar number of control
hotspots. The study found that crime and disorder reduced significantly in the
experimental hotspots compared with the control areas.
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Quote:
Random or reactive patrols – that is, officers patrolling an area without
concentrating on crime or anti-social behaviour hotspots, or simply being en route
between attending calls from the public – have been shown to have no crime
reduction effect (Sherman and Eck 2002; Weisburd and Eck 2004).
An evaluation carried out in Kansas City compared one area in which random
general patrol was increased overall to other areas where patrols continued as usual
or only in relation to calls for service. It found random patrol had no effect on crime,
disorder or fear of crime (Kelling et al. 1974). The evidence specifically on random
foot patrol has similarly shown that it has no effect on crime rates (Police
Foundation 1981).
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