Program Profile: Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), Los Angeles (Calif.)

This is a nonprofit organization created by neighborhood property owners or merchants to provide services, activities, and programs to promote local improvements and public safety.

Evidence Rating: Promising | More than one study

Date:

This is a nonprofit organization created by neighborhood property owners or merchants to provide services, activities, and programs to promote local improvements and public safety. The program is rated Promising. The treatment areas experienced statistically significant reductions in overall crime, serious crime, less serious crime, and arrests compared with the matched control group areas.

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

Date Created: July 17, 2024
Program Snapshot

Gender: Male, Female

Geography: Urban

Setting (Delivery): Other Community Setting

Program Type: Community Awareness/Mobilization, General deterrence, Situational Crime Prevention

Current Program Status: Active

Program Director:
The City Clerk's Administrative Services Division
The City Clerk's Administrative Services Division

200 North Spring Street, Room 224
Los Angeles, CA 90012
United States

Phone: 213-978-1099

Researcher:
Philip J. Cook
Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

PO Box 90245
Durham, NC 27708-0245
United States

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Researcher:
John MacDonald
Associate Professor of Criminology
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Criminology

3718 Locus Walk, McNeil Building, Suite 483
Philadelphia, PA 19104
United States

Phone: 215.746.3623
Website(link is external)
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