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Effects of One-a-Day Foot Patrols on Hot Spots of Serious Violence and Crime Harm: a Randomised Crossover Trial
Research QuestionDoes one foot patrol per day (15–20 min) conducted in serious violence harm spots reduce street-visible crime harm and frequency...
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Fifteen Minutes per Day Keeps the Violence Away: a Crossover Randomised Controlled Trial on the Impact of Foot Patrols on Serious Violence in Large Hot Spot Areas
Research QuestionDid a 15-min patrol delivery over 1 day reduce serious violent crime in large hot spots (mean size = 2 km × 2 km), without...
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How Concentrated Are Police on Crime? a Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Concentration of Police Presence and Crime
Research QuestionWhat were the spatiotemporal patterns of police patrol in a major European city across the pre-COVID year of 2019, how did these...
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Optimizing the geographic deployment of hot spot patrols with license plate readers
ObjectivesTo determine optimal methods of patrol with license plate readers (LPRs) for maximizing detection and apprehension.
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Anthony V. Bouza and the Founding of Evidence-Based Policing
Anthony V. Bouza (1928–2023) was a founding father of evidence-based policing. The first police chief to authorize a randomized controlled trial...
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Reducing Crime at High-Crime Places
What can local governments do to control crime at crime-involved places? Aside from encouraging the radiation of safety (discussed in the previous...
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Do license plate readers enhance the initial and residual deterrent effects of police patrol? A quasi-randomized test
ObjectivesTo determine whether the use and display of license plate readers (LPRs) enhance the crime prevention effects of police patrol,...
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The effect of GPS refresh rate on measuring police patrol in micro-places
With the increasing prevalence of police interventions implemented in micro hot-spots of crime, the accuracy with which officer foot patrols can be...
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Hot spots policing in Las Vegas: results from a blocked randomized controlled trial in chronic violent crime locations
ObjectivesThis randomized experiment explored the impact of hot spots policing (HSP) strategies on criminal offenses and calls for service within...
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The effects of the Summer All Out Foot Patrol Initiative in New York City: a difference-in-differences approach
ObjectivesThe New York City Police Department’s “Summer All Out” (SAO) initiative was a 90-day, presence-based foot patrol program in a subset of the...
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“Test-As-You-Go” for Hot Spots Policing: Continuous Impact Assessment with Repeat Crossover Designs
Hot spots policing is rapidly changing its evidence-base. Instead of producing more results of one-off, conventional experiments that provide an...
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Hybrid Justice (ii): Night Patrols and Place-Based Sovereignty
This chapter considers Indigenous community patrols (Night Patrols) as a form of community-owned and designed safety initiative. Their service...
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Measuring the Impacts of Everyday Police Proactive Activities: Tackling the Endogeneity Problem
ObjectivesTo examine how the practice of daily proactivity affects and responds to changes in crime at micro geographic and temporal scales.
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Targeting Knife-Enabled Homicides for Preventive Policing: A Stratified Resource Allocation Model
Research QuestionHow can police translate differing risk levels for knife homicide into a resource allocation model that follows the evidence?
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Hot spot policing in two stages: informal and formal programs in buffalo
ObjectivesThis study evaluated a micro hot spot (MHS) program developed based entirely on the chief executive’s professional exposure to hot spot...
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Assessing the impact of safe consumption sites on neighborhood crime in New York City: a synthetic control approach
ObjectivesThe study analyzes the impact of supervised consumption sites (SCSs) on local crime in New York City (NYC), examining both violent and...
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The Kurdish kaçakçı on the Iran-Turkey border: corruption and survival as EU sponsored counter-smuggling effects
This article examines people smuggling in the Kurdish borders between Turkey and Iran, and describes how members of local Kurdish border communities...
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Predictive Policing in a Develo** Country: Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials
ObjectivesThe paper studies the impact of predictive policing on crime in a develo** country. It also assesses the impact of different police...
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Police Identity Checks in Belgium: A Critical Media Content Analysis
Through a critical media content analysis, this contribution explores the police practice of identity checks in Belgium. Identity checks are one of...
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The Threat of Automating Control: Surveillance of Women’s Clothing in Iran
This chapter takes a spatial approach to urban surveillance of women’s clothing in Iran through a historical overview of hijab regulations after the...