● Neighbourhood policing was initially piloted at a ward level as part of the National Reassurance Policing Programme between October 2003 and March 2005. Following the success of this pilot, the three-year Neighbourhood Policing Programme (NPP) was officially launched in April 2005, with every neighbourhood in England and Wales having a dedicated neighbourhood policing team by April 2008. ● Th...

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What is “order”? And what is the role of policing in maintaining “order”? Do unattended broken windows invite law breaking? Do unchecked violations and misdemeanors invite more serious crimes against property as well as violent crimes against persons? Does the toleration of disorderliness both symbolize and cause the collapse of neighborhood norms for orderly behavior? Do police attacks on mino...

In this paper we review and extend the e ective bandwidth results of Kelly [28], and Kesidis, Walrand and Chang [29, 6]. These results provide a framework for call admission schemes which are sensitive to constraints on the mean delay or the tail distribution of the workload in bu ered queues. We present results which are valid for a wide variety of tra c streams and discuss their applicability...

In this paper, we analyze the queueing performance in terms of loss rate of an OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing)/TDMA (time division multiplexing access) based wireless system taking into account the multifractal behavior of the wireless traffic flows. To this end, first, we show evidences of multifractal characteristics on wireless traffic traces. These findings motivated us to...

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has made enforcement of laws against disorder and quality-of-life offenses a central part of their policing strategy. Concomitantly, New York City (NYC) experienced a renaissance in orderliness, cleanliness, tourism, real estate value, and crime reduction, although other problems such as poverty, unemployment, drug abuse, racial tensions and homelessne...

This paper examines the perceived shift from police to policing in developed world countries. It focuses on the development of multi-agency policing in rural Western Australia and, using ideas from governance theory, questions whether these partnerships are leading to more inclusive policing and new forms of rural governance. Evidence is taken from the development of a Rural Crime Prevention St...

Ideas in American Policing presents commentary and insight from leading criminologists on issues of interest to scholars, practitioners, and policy makers. The papers published in this series are from the Police Foundation lecture series of the same name. Points of view in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Police Foundation. The ...

Advancement of problem-oriented policing has been stymied by over-attention to police organizations and under-attention to police problems. This paper develops a research agenda for understanding police problems by addressing four fundamental questions: What are problems? What causes problems? How can we find effective solutions to problems? And how can we learn from problem solving? For each q...