CPTED

Results from Chicago’s Project Safe Neighborhoods showed a 37 percent decrease each month in homicide cases. Before Project Safe Neighborhoods was created the homicide rate was up to 60 percent. Not only did Chicago see a difference in homicide rates, but, those who attended the small community programs were 30 percent less likely to return to prison. Research done through a survey with a 150 offenders showed that the small programs made a positive impact on showing a good relationship between the police and offenders. The

Environmental crime prevention is based on the phase of ‘broken windows’, Wilson and Kelling use this point to stand for all the various signs of disorder and lack of concern for others that are found in some neighbourhoods. They argue that leaving broken windows unrepaired sends out a signal that no one cares. In these neighbourhoods, there is an absence of both formal social control and informal control. The police are only concerned with serious crime and turn a blind eye to petty nuisance behaviour, while respectable members of the community feel intimidated and powerless. Without curative action, the problem deteriorates. As item A shows this causes families and respectable people to move out and the area becomes a magnet for deviants.

Kelling and Wilson’s article “Broken Windows” focuses on the importance of disorder in generating and sustaining crime that is more severe. The writers explain that disorder is not directly related to serious crime, but instead leads to increased fear as well as withdrawal from residents, which allows more serious crime to move in because of decreased levels of informal societal control. Kelling and Wilson believe that police can play a key role in disrupting this process. If they put their focus on disorder and minor crimes in neighborhoods that have not yet been overtaken by serious crime, they can help reduce fear and resident withdrawal. The promotion of advanced levels of informal social control can help people take control of their neighborhood

Neighborhood's ecological conditions shape crime rates over and above the characteristics of individual residents. Communities that have been invaded by businesses and industry cease to function effectively as a means of social control. Their traditional norms and standards eventually weaken and disappear. The community's resistance to

The policy and problem identified in this policy analysis recognized the significance of the problem. Their goal was to address the issue of deterrence, public safety, and restoring neighborhoods to a safe environment for kids and the elderly to live. The plan outlines challenges for interactions with local residents and attracting more business to make the area a desirable place for residents and visitors to patronize. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of police foot patrol as a means of deterrence through apprehension and as a means of risk reduction, community and problem oriented policing, high crime neighborhood hot spots, and violence prevention.

Gun violence is a problem that has been growing in many cities across the United States. It is important for Federal and local Law Enforcement agencies to work together to enforce the Project Safe Neighborhoods and other projects similar in cities and communities where the homicide and gun violence rates are crucially high. It is each officer’s duty to make sure we do our duty as Law Enforcement to provide safe neighborhoods and save lives every day. By placing Project Safe Neighborhoods in high crime areas, the project will put in place and enforce new programs and policies for those who have committed gun crimes and are reoccurring felons. Through the use

CPTED stands for Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design. The idea behind CPTED is that effectively using the environment can drastically reduce the act and fear of crime leading to an overall better quality of life. The four principles of CPTED are natural surveillance, natural access control, territorial reinforcement, and maintenance and management (Tan, Cheong, p.4). Breaking down each one of these principles is very important. Natural surveillance is based on the idea that criminals do not want to be watched. The main goal of natural surveillance is to watch intruders. “Natural surveillance can be achieved by a number of techniques. The flow of activities can be channeled to put more people (observers) near a potential crime area” (Tan, Cheong, p. 4). The next principle to break down is natural access control. Natural access control is used by relying on physical elements to keep unauthorized people out of a certain dwelling. Third, territorial

This article addresses the many benefits of green spaces in low-income and urban neighborhoods. The main focus of the article is the finding that green spaces and community gardens help decrease crime by causing residents to be more active in outdoor activities, thus enhancing the lives of its citizens. This article provides information from a professor in the field of public health. Donna Armstrong, Ph.D., is an Associate

The results of this experiment was the reduction of 53 violent crimes comprises a reduction of 90 crimes in the targeted area, which was offset by a 37 offense increase occurring in the displacement areas immediately surrounding target areas (Ratcliffe,

Environmental criminology examines how geographical location and features in that location affect crime. It argues that some environments are more prone to crime that others.

The Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is an excellent course structured on reducing crime by adding light to dark areas where foot traffic frequents, reducing blind spots within parking structures to assist with avoiding ambushes, as well as encouraging communities to place a special focus on dilapidated structures with their communities. This course was hosted at University of Tennessee a few years ago, I was blessed to have the opportunity to attend. There are is a real connection between dilapidated structures to crime rates, the broken window theory is something we have all learned about throughout of careers in law enforcement. The role of law enforcement is key in these areas, they assist with identifying structures creating a hazard, lowing the safety of the residents, as well as locations where criminals tend to gather (George Mason University, n.d.). The disorder of a neighborhood can cause residents to be fearful forcing them to retreat from their home conversely lock themselves in not watching the areas around them creating an environment for more serious crime to move in. A community-based approach would need to be taken by law enforcement in conjunction with other city officials to remedy these situation. Speaking from personal knowledge, this approach is assisting with crime rates within

Situational crime prevention constitutes primary crime prevention measure. This is to say that it is aimed at deterring crime before it occurs. Situational prevention, like other similar primary prevention measures, focuses on subduing crime opportunities instead of the attributes of criminals or even potential criminals. It seeks to curtail opportunities for certain groups of crime by increasing the risks and difficulties associated with them and significantly reducing the rewards. Situational prevention is made up of three key elements: a sound theoretical framework, an authoritative methodology for dealing with specific crimes, and a collection of opportunity-reducing approaches (Felson & Clarke, 1997).

Many citizens have become annoyed with the crime in their neighborhoods. They have organized block watches, citizen patrols, along with neighborhood cleanups, and started harassing slumlords that allow drug dealers to use their properties. (Brown Art. 122). Among many of the crime fighting tools, the involvement of

CTPED or Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design is defined as “The prevention strategy which outlines how the physical environments can be designed in order to lessen the opportunity for crime.” (Queensland Police Department.) CPTED not only is defined by this definition, but it focuses on four more characteristics that help to make this design work effectively, and smoothly. These four characteristics are: maximizing the risk that offenders face, maximizing the effort required by offenders to commit crimes, minimizing the benefits that offenders can gain from committing crimes, and finally minimizing the excuses for opportunities toward offenders. COP is defined as “Community policing is a philosophy that promotes organizational strategies, which support the systematic use of partnerships and problem solving techniques, to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues, such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime.” (Community Policing Defined." Community Policing Dispatch). CPTED and COP are methods that promote strong communities to deter crime, and provide the community with alternatives to stop crime from ever happening in the first place. As well as these definitions, the strategies of COP, and CPTED, these strategies are based off of the broken windows theory. The broken windows theory is the theory that states once criminals see an area that is under-patrolled, they will commit more crimes

The focus of this paper will be based upon different crime prevention strategies implemented by members of the communities, local and government authorities.