Program Profile: Data-Driven Approaches to Crime and Traffic Safety (DDACTS) in Kansas

This is a law-enforcement model in which both location-based crime and automobile crash data is analyzed to determine where such incidents disproportionately occur and to employ targeted traffic enforcement strategies.

Evidence Rating: Promising | More than one study

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This is a law-enforcement model in which both location-based crime and automobile crash data is analyzed to determine where such incidents disproportionately occur (“hot spots”) and to employ targeted traffic enforcement strategies. The program is rated Promising. The areas of targeted enforcement experienced statistically significant declines in robberies, burglaries, and traffic crashes.

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

Date Created: July 17, 2024
Program Snapshot

Geography: Suburban

Setting (Delivery): High Crime Neighborhoods/Hot Spots

Program Type: Community and Problem Oriented Policing, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design/Design Against Crime, General deterrence, Hot Spots Policing, Situational Crime Prevention, Specific deterrence

Current Program Status: Active

Program Director:
Greg Collins
Research and Analysis Manager
Shawnee Kansas Police Department

5850 Renner Road
Shawnee, KS 66217
United States

Phone: 913.742.6847
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Researcher:
Kevin Bryant
Professor and Chair
Sociology and Criminology at Benedictine College

1020 N. 2nd Street
Atchison, KS 66002
United States

Phone: 913.360.7399
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Training and TA Provider:
James (Chip) Coldren, Jr.
Managing Director, Justice Programs
CNA

3003 Washington Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22203
United States

Phone: 708.804.1001
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