Note
Research outline presented at the Summit on the Economics of Policing and Community Safety held in Ottawa, 2-4 March, 2015.
Issued also in French under the title: Éliminer le crime : les 7 principes essentiels de la réduction de la criminalité au niveau des services de police.
Authors affiliated with: Centre for Public Safety & Criminal Justice Research, University of the Fraser Valley.
Summary
"This book provides a road map for successfully implementing crime reduction strategies in any jurisdiction. It demonstrates that police must have knowledge of and access to many more tools and options beyond apprehending, arresting, charging, and processing offenders; it means that police must have access to and can integrate much more data and that police activity is evidence-based; it means that police have developed policies, strategies, and tactics based on data and analysis to predict, identify, target, manage, and intervene with their most problematic population and preempt the issues that contribute most to crime and disorder; it means that police recognize which problems are best resolved in cooperation with partners; and it means that police hold everyone and everything that the police organization does, accountable for their actions and their initiatives."