Bobbies on beat ‘cut crime in 15 minutes’ – Fifteen minutes of police patrols can reduce violent crime by 70 per cent, according to analysis
Bobbies on beat ‘cut crime in 15 minutes’ – Fifteen minutes of police patrols can reduce violent crime by 70 per cent, according to analysis
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>#Bobbies on beat ‘cut crime in 15 minutes’
>Fifteen minutes of police patrols can reduce violent crime by 70 per cent, according to analysis that boosts the new Metropolitan Police commissioner’s case for more bobbies on the beat.
>Proactive patrols in crime hotspots also resulted in significant drops in wider crime, as well as fewer calls to emergency services, researchers said.
>Although police forces are spending more money on the latest artificial intelligence to predict crime patterns, the findings underline the effectiveness of old-fashioned policing.
>Sir Mark Rowley, who takes charge of the Met in September, is an advocate of better neighbourhood policing. The Times understands that improved patrolling and better community relations were the thrust of his pitch for the job, alongside zero tolerance for “rogue officers” after a series of scandals.
>During the austerity era, the Met and other forces slashed neighbourhood policing budgets and the numbers of beat bobbies were hugely reduced.
>An analysis by the Youth Endowment Fund, a non-profit group aimed at reducing youth violence, found that “hotspots policing” could dramatically cut assaults, robberies and drug-trafficking offences.
>It highlighted an Essex police pilot in Southend-on-Sea, where 15-minute police patrols resulted in a 74 per cent reduction in violent crime in the summer of 2020. It could not be attributed to the pandemic because the reductions occurred only in the specific areas where the patrols took place.
>Similarly, Operation Rowan in Bedfordshire involved patrols of 15 minutes each day in 30 hotspot areas where a third of the county’s serious violent crime was taking place. There was a 38 per cent reduction in violence and robbery. When West Midlands police carried out more patrols of between five and fifteen minutes in locations in Birmingham, there was a 14 per cent reduction in street crimes and antisocial behaviour.
>There were mixed results in the Met’s Operation Menas, when uniformed officers patrolled bus stops three times a day for a quarter of an hour. Bus drivers reported 40 per cent fewer incidents, but there was an increase in crime near by.
>Overall, the Youth Endowment Fund said mapping crime hotspots before focusing police resources had a proven track record. Jon Yates, its executive director, said: “We must follow the evidence. Hotspots policing works. We need more of it.”
>Rowley, who succeeds Dame Cressida Dick, has vowed to reform policing in London. Changes would include the use of technology and data, as well as the policing approach, as he strove to fight crime “with communities”
#Breaking News…75% of police are racist
Has it really taken several decades for somebody to figure out what the Public and Police Officers have been saying ever since the 90’s?
Fucking infuriating.
> It highlighted an Essex police pilot in Southend-on-Sea, where 15-minute police patrols resulted in a 74 per cent reduction in violent crime in the summer of 2020. It could not be attributed to the pandemic because the reductions occurred only in the specific areas where the patrols took place.
If the patrols were around areas overly effected by the pandemic, then it bloody well can be the fucking pandemic behind this.
Ah, it’s an [opinion piece](https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/want-to-reduce-violence-follow-the-science/), not peer reviewed.
On one hand you have the known and quantifiable effects of viable policing.
On the other hand you have systemic tory cuts to policing followed by small amounts of investments trying to make up the numbers again.
Sod the police. Lets do it ED-209 style on every rough corner.
NOT with out-of-shape or tiny Bobbies – “presence” matters. I don’t know recruitment works now but I have seen some seriously weaklings.
Tackle the root cause of crime ❌️
Increase presence of police, further descending into an authoritarian police state ✅️
Isn’t the issue with this particular study the same as it often is with this area of research generally, that it doesn’t necessarily show at all what the headline purports it to show. It doesn’t show a reduction in violent crime generally, only for the area patrolled during the time of the patrols. This could easily mean it merely results in a displacement of the crime.