Program Profile: Problem-Oriented Policing in Violent Crime Places (Jersey City, NJ)

This is a focused policing strategy, designed to reduce violent crime in high-crime locations by modifying specific characteristics and situations that promote violence in targeted areas.

Evidence Rating: Promising | One study

Date:

This is a focused policing strategy, designed to reduce violent crime in high-crime locations in Jersey City, N.J., by modifying specific characteristics and situations that promote violence in targeted areas. The program is rated Promising. Total citizen calls for service and total reported criminal incidents were reduced in treatment locations, compared with control locations. These findings were statistically significant.

A Promising rating implies that implementing the program may 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 Created: July 17, 2024
Program Snapshot

Geography: Urban

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

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

Current Program Status: Not Active

Program Developer:
David Weisburd
Distinguished Professor
George Mason University, Department of Criminology, Law and Society

4400 University Drive, MS 6D3
Fairfax, VA 22030
United States

Phone: 703.993.4079
Website(link is external)
Email

Researcher:
Anthony Braga
Professor
Northeastern University

360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
United States

Phone: 617.373.3327
Email

Researcher:
David Weisburd
Distinguished Professor
George Mason University, Department of Criminology, Law and Society

4400 University Drive, MS 6D3
Fairfax, VA 22030
United States

Phone: 703.993.4079
Website(link is external)
Email