Hot spots are areas with a high occurrence of crime. These areas can be anywhere. They can be bars, malls, neighborhoods, pretty much anywhere criminals target. The National Institute of Justice lists theories that may contribute to the selection of these spots. The theories listed are Routine Activity Theory, Theory, Social Disorganization Theory, and Crime Prevention Theory. A number of factors influence where crime occurs, including the physical and social characteristics of the place and the people using the place. (Burgess 2011). Crime analysts look for events that might indicate a number of related crimes. They observe neighborhoods and neighborhood clusters with high crime levels and try to link them to underlying social
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Not every hot spots study has shown significant findings, the vast majority of studies have suggesting that when police focus on crime hot spots, they can have a beneficial impact on crimes in hot spot areas. (Center for evidence-Based Crime Policy) One of the most basic and common strategies that agencies use at hot spots is directed patrol, which involves assigning officers to patrol particular areas at particular times. In 1988, officers of the Minneapolis Police Department began a yearlong experiment to test the effect of police patrol presence on crime. In the first experimental study of hot spots policing, directed patrol at 55 randomly selected hotspots in Minneapolis were evaluated. Officers concentrated patrols on the experimental hot spots during high risk times of the day and night, without answering calls for service (Woods, …show more content…
The POP model has police to transcend reactive, incident-driven, policing by studying and addressing underlying problems that contribute to crime and disorder in the community (Woods, 2010). The purpose of this strategy was for police to take proactive, preventive action against the causes of continuing crime and disorder issues. Observers have noted that in practice of POP efforts often fall short of the idea of POP that involve limited analysis, limited community partnership efforts, heavy reliance on enforcement tactics and other situational crime prevention responses. These problems have complicated the assessment of some POP projects. A number of studies have examined the application of the POP strategy to hot spots, and most show that the efforts reduce some forms of crime and
Not every hot spots study has shown significant findings, the vast majority of studies have suggesting that when police focus on crime hot spots, they can have a beneficial impact on crimes in hot spot areas. (Center for evidence-Based Crime Policy) One of the most basic and common strategies that agencies use at hot spots is directed patrol, which involves assigning officers to patrol particular areas at particular times. In 1988, officers of the Minneapolis Police Department began a yearlong experiment to test the effect of police patrol presence on crime. In the first experimental study of hot spots policing, directed patrol at 55 randomly selected hotspots in Minneapolis were evaluated. Officers concentrated patrols on the experimental hot spots during high risk times of the day and night, without answering calls for service (Woods, …show more content…
The POP model has police to transcend reactive, incident-driven, policing by studying and addressing underlying problems that contribute to crime and disorder in the community (Woods, 2010). The purpose of this strategy was for police to take proactive, preventive action against the causes of continuing crime and disorder issues. Observers have noted that in practice of POP efforts often fall short of the idea of POP that involve limited analysis, limited community partnership efforts, heavy reliance on enforcement tactics and other situational crime prevention responses. These problems have complicated the assessment of some POP projects. A number of studies have examined the application of the POP strategy to hot spots, and most show that the efforts reduce some forms of crime and