Operation LASER (Los Angeles’ Strategic Extraction and Restoration program) is a program conducted by the Los Angeles Police Department Newton Division to reduce gun violence as part of the Smart Policing Initiative. There are two components to this operation: a...
Project Safe Neighborhoods was the centerpiece of the Bush administration’s crime policy in President Bush’s first term. This is a policy driven by deterrence and incapacitation and directed at reducing gun violence. In brief, the policy called for federal...
This research examines the impact of focused deterrence on homicide and gun violence in Kansas City, MO. In 2014, a coalition of police, prosecutors, city officials, researchers, and others implemented Kansas City No Violence Alliance, a focused deterrence violence...
Police handgun shooting accuracy during field confrontations is poor, and this raises questions about the validity and thus utility of public safety officer firearm training. Surveys of police and correctional departments (n = 124) and instructors (n = 224) in...
This study evaluated a police-led community initiative that combined various enforcement and prevention efforts to reduce gun violence and other violence in a selected area of St. Louis, Missouri. A quasi-experimental multiple time-series design was used to compare...
