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- 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).
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Jul 1, 2021 · Visible police patrol can reduce crime, however, but only if it is targeted in the small geographic locations – or hot spots – where crime is concentrated (Sherman and Eck, 2002; Weisburd and Eck, 2004).
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...
Read the latest evidence on targeted approaches to crime and disorder reduction. As well as preventing crime and deterring offenders, the way the police treat individuals and communities day to day in any encounter (and historically over time) can also make a difference to crime.
Aug 8, 2019 · It is hard to see how more visible policing will deter such crime, let alone strike terror in criminals. If anything, it may even take away the focus on the much harder to detect hidden harm, including terror plots, which have few visible signs.
Jul 29, 2021 · These findings suggest that, when police are more visible in neighbourhoods, this leads to more positive perceptions from residents about officer behaviour (that is, the fairness with which the police treat residents), which in turn leads to more collectively efficacious neighbourhoods.
- Julia Yesberg, Ian Brunton-Smith, Ben Bradford
- 2021
Apr 4, 2024 · Overall, both the primary/general outcome and the RVE analysis suggest that there is a small deterrent impact of police patrol on crime. In the case of the primary/general outcome measure, the deterrent impact is equal to a 6% decline in crime, and it is marginally significant at the p < 0.10 level.
Jul 1, 2016 · Based on the deterrence literature, crime should be reduced if police patrol can effectively increase the certainty that criminal activity will be observed and punished. One mainstay of policing since the 1930s has been random preventive patrol by automobile.
