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This book provides all the information you need to get started with Operation Safe Surroundings (OpSS) in your jurisdiction. This evidence-based violence prevention strategy will help you reduce crime and enhance public safety. OpSS is an effective and sustainable approach to problem-solving that:

• Maximizes existing resources to focus on places and people with the greatest needs;
  
• Balances policing and law enforcement tactics with all other options; and,
• Establishes a data-driven and transparent process crime prevention and meaningful community engagement.

Contents (31 pages)
Ch 1: Maximizing Local Resources
Ch 2: Implementing OpSS
Ch 3: Analyses and Methods for OpSS
Ch 4: Interventions Focused at Places
Ch 5: Evidence-Based Support for OpSS
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