The Cost of Crackdowns: Policing Cabramatta's Heroin Market

A Rational Theory of Random Crackdowns∗

This paper develops an incentives-based theory of policing that can explain the phenomenon of random “crackdowns,” which are intermittant periods of especially high interdiction/surveillance. We show that, when police minimize the crime rate, random crackdowns can emerge as part of an optimal policing strategy. We consider several variations of the basic policing model that would apply in diffe...

Crackdowns: the Effects of Intensive Enforcement on Retail Heroin Dealing

Part of this debate concerns the purposes and justifications for such efforts. Some argue that the . enforcement activity is justified simply because laws against drug use exis, and it is the clear obligation of the State to enforce the laws. Others see the laws and improved enforcement as justified by their impact on levels of illicit drug use.' Still others see drug enforcement as a potential...

Efficient Algorithms for a Scheduling Problem and its Applications to Illicit Drug Market Crackdowns

A Plea for Harm Reduction Policing Involving People Who Use Drugs

Pattern detection in forensic case data using graph theory: application to heroin cutting agents.

Pattern recognition techniques can be very useful in forensic sciences to point out to relevant sets of events and potentially encourage an intelligence-led style of policing. In this study, these techniques have been applied to categorical data corresponding to cutting agents found in heroin seizures. An application of graph theoretic methods has been performed, in order to highlight the possi...