INEFFECTIVENESS OF ADDING POLICE TO PREVENT CRIME

• NCJ Number: 31635
• Journal: PUBLIC POLICY Volume: 23 Issue: 4 Dated: (FALL 1975), 523-545
• Author(s): J P LIVINE
• Date Published: 1975
• Length: 23 pages
• Corporate Author: Harvard University Press
• Publication Format: Article
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

RESULTS OF STUDIES FROM CITIES WHICH HAVE VARIED THE NUMBER OF POLICE PER CAPITA IN RESPONSE TO CRIME TRENDS SHOW THAT THIS VARIATION HAS HAD LITTLE, IF ANY, EFFECT.

Abstract

SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISPLACEMENT OF CRIME IS OFTEN THE RESULT OF INCREASED MANPOWER. OTHER STUDIES SHOW THAT WASHINGTON, D.C., WHOSE POLICE PER CAPITA NUMBER FIVE TIMES THOSE OF INDIANAPOLIS, ALSO HAS FIVE TIMES THE ROBBERY RATE. FURTHERMORE, VARIATIONS IN PATROL STRATEGIES OFTEN SHOW NO APPRECIABLE DIFFERENCE IN CRIME RATES.