Program Profile: Operation Safe Streets (Philadelphia, Pa.)

This is a problem-oriented policing program targeted at high-crime areas and drug corners to prevent violent and drug-related crime.

Evidence Rating: Promising | One study

Date:

This is a problem-oriented policing program targeted at high-crime areas and drug corners in Philadelphia, Pa., to prevent violent and drug-related crime. The program is rated Promising. Localized analysis of the intervention group areas (that implemented the program) found statistically significant reductions in violent and drug crime rates. However, there were no statistically significant effects on citywide homicide, violent crime, or drug crime rates.

A Promising rating implies that implementing the program may result in the intended outcome(s).

Date Created: July 17, 2024
Program Snapshot

Geography: Urban

Setting (Delivery): High Crime Neighborhoods/Hot Spots

Program Type: Community-Oriented Policing, Crisis Intervention/Response, Hot Spots Policing, Violence Prevention

Targeted Population: Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Offenders, Serious/Violent Offender

Current Program Status: Not Active

Researcher:
Brian Lawton
Assistant Professor
George Mason University, Department of Criminology, Law and Society

4400 University Dr MS4F4, 358 Aquia Building
Fairfax, VA 20330
United States

Phone: 703.993.9832
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