Program Profile: Hot Spots Policing (Jacksonville, FL)

This is a geographically focused policing strategy to reduce violent crime in high-crime areas using problem-oriented policing and saturation/directed patrols.

Evidence Rating: Ineffective | More than one study

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This is a geographically focused policing strategy to reduce violent crime in high-crime areas using problem-oriented policing (POP) and saturation/directed patrols. The program is rated No Effects. While there were no statistically significant reductions in any violent or property crime in POP hot spots, or in any violence or property crime in directed patrol hot spots, there were statistically significant reductions in nondomestic violent crime in POP hot spots compared with control hot spots.

An Ineffective rating implies that implementing the program is unlikely to result in the intended outcome(s).

This program's rating is based on evidence that includes at least one high-quality randomized controlled trial.

Date Modified: May 28, 2021

In January 2012, Hot Spots Policing Jacksonville received a final program rating of No Effects based on review of Taylor, Koper and Woods (2011a, 2011b). In January 2021, CrimeSolutions conducted a re-review of the same study using the updated CrimeSolutions Program Scoring Instrument, separating the review of the problem oriented policing condition and the saturation/directed patrol condition. This re-review resulted in the program maintaining the overall No Effects rating.

Date Created: July 17, 2024
Program Snapshot

Gender: Male, Female

Geography: Urban

Setting (Delivery): Other Community Setting, High Crime Neighborhoods/Hot Spots

Program Type: Community-Oriented Policing, General deterrence, Hot Spots Policing, Situational Crime Prevention, Violence Prevention

Targeted Population: Serious/Violent Offender

Current Program Status: Not Active