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The New Blue Line: Police Innovation in Six American Cities
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What Can Police Do to Reduce Crime, Disorder, and Fear?
David Weisburd,John E. Eck +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review research on police effectiveness in reducing crime, disorder, and fear in the context of a typology of innovation in police practices, emphasizing two dimensions: one concerning the diversity of approaches, and the other, the level of focus.
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Just enough police presence: Reducing crime and disorderly behavior by optimizing patrol time in crime hot spots
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ survival models to test hypotheses about the effects of specific instances of police patrol presence at high-crime locations on the time until the next occurrence of criminal or disorderly behavior at these locations.
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Toward community-oriented policing: Potential, basic requirements, and threshold questions
TL;DR: The concept of community-oriented policing is beginning to evolve that, when fully developed, could provide the dominant framework to which all future improvement efforts in policing are linked as mentioned in this paper, and a number of minimum requirements for moving in this direction are already identifiable.
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Community crime prevention: A review and synthesis of the literature
TL;DR: In the absence of effective formal means for controlling crime in the Western world, community crime prevention has emerged as a major alternative and supplement to the criminal justice system as discussed by the authors, where citizen actions to protect themselves, their property, and their neighborhood, as well as efforts to prevent crime through changes in the physical environmental and through innovations in community policing are discussed.
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The relative importance of race and ethnicity on citizen attitudes toward the police
TL;DR: This paper found that race variables have the greatest effect on attitudes toward the police and that social class has some influence on attitudes towards the police, and suggested that neighborhood is an important influence on ATP.