Focus Where it Matters: How Strategic Policing Reduces Serious Crime
This brief discusses how concentrating police and city resources strategically on the few locations and individuals driving most violent crime delivers major public safety gains without widespread enforcement or loss of public trust.
Adapted from MacDonald, J.M. Smith, M.R., & Groff, E. (2025). A focused approach to concentrating on crime and criminal offenders. Police Chief, 92 (forthcoming).
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