Race has long been recognized as playing a critical role in policing. In spite of this awareness, there has been little previous research that attempts to quantitatively analyze the impact of officer race on tangible outcomes. In this paper, we examine the relationship between the racial composition of a city’s police force and the racial patterns of arrests. Increases in the number of minority...

This paper aims to examine the phenomenon of fear of crime and its relationship to print media reportage. Fear of crime as a concept is discussed initially, in order to justify it as a worthwhile area of investigation, and a number of statistics are then examined which show how widespread and serious a problem fear of crime is in modern societies. Following this a literature review encompassing...

Evidence-based policing is a method of making decisions about “what works” in policing: which practices and strategies accomplish police missions most cost-effectively. In contrast to basing decisions on theory, assumptions, tradition, or convention, an evidence-based approach continuously tests hypotheses with empirical research findings. While research on all aspects of policing grew substant...