Police and Community

Using the assigned readings concerning hot spots policing (i.e., Chapters 4 and 5 in Policing Problem Places, and the Advocate and Critic positions for Hot Spots Policing in the Police Innovation reader), discuss the potential strengths and weaknesses of the approach.

Your response should be about one typed page with 1-inch margins, 12 point font, and double-spacing.  Please put your name, course title and date at the top of the page.

Textbooks:

Braga, A.A. & D.L. Weisburd. (2010). Policing Problem Places: Crime Hot Spots and Effective Prevention. Oxford, NY: Oxford Publishers.

Weisburd, D.L. & Braga, A.A. (2006). Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press.