We build upon previous reviews of the police effectiveness literature to categorize strategies
and tactics based on what police should and should not be doing. We also provide relevant …

The authors review research on police effectiveness in reducing crime, disorder, and fear in
the context of a typology of innovation in police practices. That typology emphasizes two …

This report, part of a larger project entitled" Police Effectiveness in a Changing World,"
identifies and discusses effective police-led approaches to reducing crime. The findings from …

John E. Eck and Edward R. Maguire bounds, neither the level of police resources nor the
core strategies of policing appear to have much effect on crime. Dramatic reductions in …

Growing experimental evidence suggests police actions can reduce crime, increase it, or
make no difference, depending on a wide range of conditions. Growing epidemiological …

In a recent volume (Weisburd and Braga, 2006), a group of leading scholars presented
contrasting perspectives on eight major innovations in American policing developed over …

Two principles should form the bedrock for effective policing in a democratic society. The first
is that crimes averted, not arrests made, should be the primary metric for judging police …

The more police we have, the less crime there will be. While citizens and public officials
often espouse that view, others claim that police make only minimal contributions to crime …

The core mission of the police is to control crime. No one disputes this. Indeed, professional
crime fighting enjoys wide public support as the basic strategy of policing precisely because …

In recent years, scholars have begun to argue that police interventions provide an effective
approach for gaining both special and general deterrence against crime. A series of …