Hot spots policing and crime reduction: An update of an ongoing systematic review and meta-analysis

AA Braga, BS Turchan, AV Papachristos… - Journal of experimental …, 2019 - Springer
Objectives This updated systematic review assesses the effects of focused police crime
prevention interventions at crime hot spots. The review also examined whether focused …

Hot spots policing of small geographic areas effects on crime

AA Braga, B Turchan, AV Papachristos… - Campbell systematic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background In recent years, crime scholars and practitioners have pointed to the potential
benefits of focusing crime prevention efforts on crime places. A number of studies suggest …

Understanding the limits of technology's impact on police effectiveness

C Lum, CS Koper, J Willis - Police quarterly, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Technology has become a major source of expenditure and innovation in law enforcement
and is assumed to hold great potential for enhancing police work. But does technology …

Does hot spots policing have meaningful impacts on crime? Findings from an alternative approach to estimating effect sizes from place-based program evaluations

AA Braga, DL Weisburd - Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2020 - Springer
Objectives Prior meta analyses of hot spots policing show that the approach reduces crime,
but report relatively small mean effect sizes based on Cohen'sd. The natural logarithm of the …

Policing in the era of big data

G Ridgeway - Annual review of criminology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Fifty years ago, the 1967 President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of
Justice urged the rapid adoption of information technology to improve the effectiveness …

The long-term and system-level impacts of institutionalizing hot spot policing in a small city

CS Koper, C Lum, X Wu… - Policing: A Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Numerous studies have shown that hot spot policing (HSP) is effective in reducing crime in
small high-risk locations. However, questions remain about the efficacy of HSP outside large …

The effects of hot spot policing on community experiences and perceptions in a time of COVID-19 and calls for police reform

CS Koper, W Liu, BG Taylor, X Wu… - Police …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
To extend the limited evidence on how hot spot policing (HSP) strategies affect community
experiences, perceptions, and attitudes, police agencies in two cities participated in a …

Policing migration and racial technologies

A Parmar - The British Journal of Criminology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The merger between familiar modes of policing with the impetus for migration control is
reorganizing the racial politics of policing in unexpected ways. In the aim to decipher who is …

Do everyday proactive policing activities reduce vehicle crashes? Examining a commonly held law enforcement belief using a novel method

X Wu, C Lum, C Koper - Journal of criminal justice, 2021 - Elsevier
Traffic accidents present a significant challenge to public safety and are a top priority for
many law enforcement agencies in the United States. Empirical studies suggest that police …

Human factors in police mobile computer terminals: A systematic review and survey of recent literature, guideline formulation, and future research directions

M Zahabi, C Pankok Jr, J Park - Applied ergonomics, 2020 - Elsevier
The objectives of this research were to:(1) identify Mobile Computer Terminal (MCT) human
factors issues,(2) formulate guidelines and an enhanced MCT for improving interface design …