What’s on the Hot Spot Policing poster
A definition and 5 facts worth remembering.
Directed patrol at micro-places, tested repeatedly in randomised field trials.
- Among the better-evidenced policing tactics
- Tested in many randomised controlled trials
- Effects are modest but repeatedly found
- Displacement is usually smaller than feared
- Benefits often diffuse to nearby streets
- Evidence base — Multiple RCTs and systematic reviews
- Typical effect — Small reduction in the treated place
- Short repeated visits appear to work better than long static posting.
Educational reference. Gains depend on how patrol time is used; aggressive enforcement can cost legitimacy elsewhere.
Questions about the Hot Spot Policing poster
- What’s on the Hot Spot Policing poster?
- A definition and 5 facts worth remembering. Directed patrol at micro-places, tested repeatedly in randomised field trials. Among the better-evidenced policing tactics; Tested in many randomised controlled trials; Effects are modest but repeatedly found; Displacement is usually smaller than feared; Benefits often diffuse to nearby streets; Evidence base — Multiple RCTs and systematic reviews; Typical effect — Small reduction in the treated place; Short repeated visits appear to work better than long static posting.. Educational reference. Gains depend on how patrol time is used; aggressive enforcement can cost legitimacy elsewhere.
- Who is the Hot Spot Policing poster for?
- Hot Spot Policing belongs to the Criminal Justice section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning policing can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Hot Spot Policing poster?
- One of the few policing tactics with a strong experimental evidence base. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Hot Spot Policing belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Hot Spot Policing?
- Body-Worn Cameras, The Broken Windows Debate and Investigative Interviewing sit alongside Hot Spot Policing in the Criminal Justice section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Body-Worn CamerasThe Broken Windows DebateInvestigative Interviewing
- Is the Hot Spot Policing poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Hot Spot Policing downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Criminal Justice section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Hot Spot Policing poster print at?
- Hot Spot Policing is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Hot Spot Policing loses nothing.Printing guide
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