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The effects of community-infused problem-oriented policing in crime hot spots based on police data: a randomized controlled trial

OBJECTIVES: This randomized controlled trial (RCT) assessed the effectiveness of a community-infused problem-oriented policing (CPOP) intervention on reducing property/violent crime. METHODS: In two mid-Atlantic cities, a total of 102 crime hot spots were randomly assigned to receive CPOP or standar...

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Autores principales: Taylor, Bruce G., Liu, Weiwei, Maitra, Poulami, Koper, Christopher S., Sheridan, Jackie, Johnson, William
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9638250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36373058
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11292-022-09541-x
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author Taylor, Bruce G.
Liu, Weiwei
Maitra, Poulami
Koper, Christopher S.
Sheridan, Jackie
Johnson, William
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description OBJECTIVES: This randomized controlled trial (RCT) assessed the effectiveness of a community-infused problem-oriented policing (CPOP) intervention on reducing property/violent crime. METHODS: In two mid-Atlantic cities, a total of 102 crime hot spots were randomly assigned to receive CPOP or standard patrol. Analyses examine changes in crime the year before, during, and one year after the intervention. We used hierarchical Poisson regression models. RESULTS: We found no main effects for the CPOP intervention on property and violent crimes in either site. In site B, the violent crime count in low treatment hot spots was 200% higher than controls post-intervention but this likely reflected officers paying less attention to treatment locations with lower levels of crime. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that CPOP was not effective in the unusual context of the COVID-19 pandemic and post-George Floyd killing. Given the challenges of implementing CPOP during this unique time, caution is needed in interpreting these findings.
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spelling pubmed-96382502022-11-07 The effects of community-infused problem-oriented policing in crime hot spots based on police data: a randomized controlled trial Taylor, Bruce G. Liu, Weiwei Maitra, Poulami Koper, Christopher S. Sheridan, Jackie Johnson, William J Exp Criminol Article OBJECTIVES: This randomized controlled trial (RCT) assessed the effectiveness of a community-infused problem-oriented policing (CPOP) intervention on reducing property/violent crime. METHODS: In two mid-Atlantic cities, a total of 102 crime hot spots were randomly assigned to receive CPOP or standard patrol. Analyses examine changes in crime the year before, during, and one year after the intervention. We used hierarchical Poisson regression models. RESULTS: We found no main effects for the CPOP intervention on property and violent crimes in either site. In site B, the violent crime count in low treatment hot spots was 200% higher than controls post-intervention but this likely reflected officers paying less attention to treatment locations with lower levels of crime. CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that CPOP was not effective in the unusual context of the COVID-19 pandemic and post-George Floyd killing. Given the challenges of implementing CPOP during this unique time, caution is needed in interpreting these findings. Springer Netherlands 2022-11-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9638250/ /pubmed/36373058 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11292-022-09541-x Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9638250/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36373058
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11292-022-09541-x
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