Both those who study crime and those who fight it agree that crime is not spread evenly across city landscapes. Rather, clusters of crime-a few "hot spots"-host a vastly disproportionate amount of criminal activity. Even within the most crime-ridden neighborhoods, crime concentrates at a few locatio[...]
Over the last three decades American policing has gone through a period of significant change and innovation. In what is a relatively short historical time frame the police began to reconsider their fundamental mission, the nature of the core strategies of policing, and the character of their relati[...]