A response to “what happened to patrol operations in Kansas City?”

Larson's review raises several points concerning the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment. The authors of the evaluation of that experiment respond to each of Larson's criticisms. With reference to Larson's two major points, this response demonstrates that (1) neither Larson's models nor his data are adequate to make statements about “typical patrol intensities” in major American cities and (2) patrol visibility in the reactive areas was markedly decreased over the one-year period of the experiment.The authors agree with Larson and have consistently urged that great caution should be used in generalizing the results of the experiment. The Technical Report itself presents results cautiously and conservatively. Also, large amounts of data comparing Kansas City with other cities are presented in the Report to enable readers to place the kansas City experience in perspective.The authors also agree with Larson that the results of the experiment indicate that police administrators can be more flexible in the allocation of officers than they have been previously. That Larson reaches this conclusion indicates that, despite his minor criticisms of the study which are responded to herein, he basically accepts the results of the experiment.     

推行社区警务，确保街区安全

与反应式警务(“incident-oriented”policing)相比较,有时“修复破窗户”(“fixingbrokenwindows”)确实更能降低犯罪率。社区警务的工作核心就是“修复破窗户”,推行社区警务是对反应式警务所存在的不足的一个有益的修正。     

Modeling the Social and Spatial Proximity of Crime: Domestic and Sexual Violence Across Neighborhoods

Journal of Quantitative Criminology - Our goal is to understand the social dynamics affecting domestic and sexual violence in urban areas by investigating the role of connections between area...     

Neighborhoods and police: The maintenance of civil athority

This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the third conference of the Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia, March 19–23, 1989. The paper was published as G. Kelling &; J. Stewart,Neighborhood and Police: The Maintenance of Civil Authority (National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice-John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Perspectives on Policing Series, No. 10, May 1989).