In the context of an enhanced partnership with the Albany Police Department, the Institute will conduct research designed to increase the efficiency of proactive policing, increasing the ratio of successful or other “high-value” stops to all stops. Proactive policing, which previous research suggests is an effective crime control tactic, would thus be conducted more surgically, such that the stops that are made would have the greatest potential crime-reduction benefits, perhaps mitigating the adverse consequences of proactive policing without vitiating its crime control value. The enhanced partnership is organized in terms of a project working group and a steering committee – the new Research Advisory Council (RAC) –that will set direction for and exercise oversight over partnership work, and also serve as a forum for formal exchanges about research.
Reports and Publications
Andrew P. Wheeler, Robert E. Worden, and Sarah J. McLean, 2015. “Replicating Group-Based Trajectory Models of Crime at Micro-Places in Albany, NY,” Journal of Quantitative Criminology. (Published on-line October 19, 2015; doi 10.1007/s10940-015-9268-3.)