Two effective criminal justice technologies are broken-windows policing and three-strikes sentencing, and both are based on focusing on the worst crimogenic aspects of neighborhoods and criminals respectively.
One of the foremost proponents of broken-windows policing, William Bratton, has been the police chief in Los Angeles awhile and garnering excellent reviews, as this recent article in the Los Angeles Times notes.
It appears—from this article on one neighborhood in Cincinnati—that broken-windows policing is called for and one hopes they soon bring it.
An excerpt.
“OVER-THE-RHINE - Two streets in this Cincinnati neighborhood have earned the city the top spot in a national ranking of the 25 most dangerous neighborhoods by a personal finance and consumer Web site, according to data from 2005 through 2007.
“According to walletpop.com, Central Parkway and Liberty Street in Over-the-Rhine are the center of the worst neighborhood, with a violent crime rate of 266.94 per 1,000 population and 457 predicted annual violent crimes.
“There is a 1 in 4 chance in becoming a crime victim in that area in one year's time, the site reports.
“Spokesmen for Cincinnati police and Mayor Mark Mallory did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“According to walletpop.com, the ranking was compiled by NeighborhoodsScout.com, which gathers FBI data from 2005, 2006 and 2007 submitted by all 17,000 local law enforcement agencies and came up with the highest predicted rates of violent crime in America.”
Lampstand Foundation website, http://www.lampstandfoundation.org/
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About
- David H. Lukenbill
- I am a California native, married, we have one daughter and live close to the American River with two cats and all the wild critters we can feed. I am a management consultant to nonprofit organizations and have an Associates of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from Sacramento City College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco and a Master of Public Administration degree, also from the University of San Francisco.