The spatial patterning of emergency demand for police services: a scoping review

S Langton, S Ruiter, L Schoonmade - Crime Science, 2024 - Springer
This preregistered scoping review provides an account of studies which have examined the
spatial patterning of emergency reactive police demand (ERPD) as measured by calls for …

Staffing levels are the most important factor influencing police response times

SM Mourtgos, IT Adams, J Nix - Policing: A Journal of Policy and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We examine the factors influencing police response times, with a particular focus on staffing
levels, calls for service (CFS), and proactive police work. We estimate Bayesian Holt-Winters …

Replicating & reproducing policing research

K Monk, J Koziarski - Police Practice and Research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In science, replication and reproduction are critical for understanding the reliability of
findings from scholarship that came before. When an independent group of researchers …

A Police Response Effort Index to complement counts and harm indices in understanding crime and policing demand

S Curtis-Ham, R Jones, E Dunstan, R Looc, C Jordan - Crime Science, 2024 - Springer
Responding to crime and non-crime policing demand in the increasingly complex policing
environment calls for increasingly nuanced means of measuring demand. Complementing …

Risky facilities, physical site features, and comparing crime between urban parks

MD Spencer, C Schnell - Security Journal, 2025 - Springer
There is much interdisciplinary research on the relationship between urban parks and crime
but very little understanding of why some parks experience more crime compared to other …

Operationalizing deployment time in police calls for service

S Langton, T Verlaan, S Ruiter - Crime Science, 2023 - Springer
Analyses of emergency calls for service data in the United States suggest that around 50%
of dispatched police deployment time is spent on crime-related incidents. The remainder of …

How are traffic fines affected by the driver's car price and the police officer's discretion? A case study of Isfahan, Iran

M Asl-Javadian, M Mesbah… - Journal of Computational …, 2024 - Springer
Traffic violations can cause congestion and road safety risks. The two objectives of this study
are (a) to study the influence of car price and (b) to investigate the influence of police …

After the incident: measuring organizational (internal) police demand

N de Leeuw, S Langton, H van Voornveld… - Police Practice and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Recent studies have sought to estimate the amount of time consumed by police responding
to emergency calls for service. And yet, we know that reactive deployed resources represent …

Analysing the role of police officer strength in the crime drop in England

F Tura, J Hunter, R Thompson… - Policing: A Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
According to evidence from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), there have
been significant falls in crime levels in England and Wales since the 1990s. Many …

Managing Mental Health Calls for Service: An Evaluability Assessment of Co-Located Behavioral Health Specialists Within a Public Safety Communications Center

M Goodier - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Public support for reducing the role of the police in situations involving persons with mental
illness (PWMI) has gained significant momentum in recent years. As a result, many …