Rutgers Center on Public Security
  • Home
  • People
  • Topics
  • RTM
    • RTM Intro
    • Certification
    • riskterrainmodeling.com
  • Software
    • RTMDx Gratis
    • RTMDx for Students
    • RTMDx by Simsi
  • Training
    • Professional Services
    • RTM Training Online
    • Course Materials >
      • Download Course Materials
  • News
  • Anchor Initiative
    • NPSC

POlicing & Public Safety

Research, Strategies & Operations

Presentations

Picture
Atlantic City Police and Rutgers appear on National Geographic Channel's 'Breakthrough' series, Season 2, Episode 5. Watch the clip: "By finding hidden patterns in big data, computers powered by a new form of artificial intelligence can predict the future with amazing accuracy."
PODCAST. 2018 | Can the study of criminal justice and RTM help Batman fight crime more efficiently around the world?

Journal Articles

2021. Data-Informed Crime Prevention at Convenience Stores in Atlantic City. Police Practice & Research. Link

2021. Data-Informed and Place-Based Violent Crime Prevention: The Kansas City, Missouri Risk-Based Policing Initiative. Police Quarterly. Link


​2020. Cognitive and Affective Processing of Risk Information: A Survey Experiment on Risk-Based Decision-Making Related to Crime and Public Safety. Frontiers in Psychology. Link

2019. Using Vulnerability and Exposure to Improve Robbery Prediction and Target Area Selection. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. Link (Free online PDF)

2018. Forecasting Crime and Understanding its Causes. Applying Risk Terrain Modeling Worldwide. European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research. Link

2018. Enhancing Data-Driven Law Enforcement Efforts: Exploring how Risk Terrain Modeling and Conjunctive Analysis Fit in a Crime and Traffic Safety Framework. American Journal of Criminal Justice. Link

2018. Facilitators and Impediments to Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Risk-Based Policing Strategies Using Risk Terrain Modeling: Insights from a Multi-City Evaluation in the United States. European Journal of Criminal Policy and Research. Link

2014. Spatial Risk Factors of Felonious Battery to Police Officers. Policing. Link

2014. Risk Terrain Modeling for Strategic and Tactical Action. Crime Mapping & Analysis News. Link

2012. Kansas City’s Violent Crime Initiative: A Place-Based Evaluation of Location-Specific Intervention Activities during a Fixed Time Period. Crime Mapping, 4(2), 9-37. Link

2011. Risk clusters, hotspots, and spatial intelligence: Risk Terrain Modeling as an Algorithm for Police Resource Allocation Strategies. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 27(3), 339-362. Link

Research Briefs

2021. Data-Informed and  Crime Prevention at Convenience Stores in Atlantic City PDF | Infographic

2021. Data-Informed and Place-Based Violent Crime Prevention: The Kansas City, Missouri Risk-Based Policing Initiative PDF | Infographic

2013. Felonious Assault and Injury to Law Enforcement: Epidemiology and Spatial Risk Factors PDF

2012. Risk-Based Intervention Strategy for Policing PDF

2012. Integrating Spatial Crime Analysis Techniques for Tactical and Strategic Actions PDF

2010. Applying Risk Terrain Modeling to a Violent Crimes Initiative in Kansas City, Missouri PDF

2010. Risk Clusters, Hotspots, and Spatial Intelligence: Risk Terrains Modeling as an Algorithm for Police Resource Allocation Strategies PDF

2009. Introduction to Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) for Strategic Decision-Making and Tactical Action PDF

2009. Risk Terrains as Spatial Intelligence PDF

2009. A Risk Based Outline for Intelligence-Led Policing PDF

Insights

  • Policing with RTM Saves Money Link
  • Risk Narratives Link
  • Tips for Successful Forecasting Link
  • RTM for Traffic Crashes Link
  • The Crime Risk Kaleidoscope Link
  • Tips for Risk Reduction Strategies Link
  • CPTED without RTM is Like Playing Darts Blind Link
  • Know It's What You Did That Made the Difference Link
  • View Other Blog Posts at the RTM Blog

Final Reports

2018. Risk-Based Policing in Atlantic City: 2017 Report PDF

2017. The Atlantic City Police Department Risk-Based Policing Initiative Pilot Project: 2016 Year-End Report PDF

2015. A Multi-jurisdictional Test of Risk Terrain Modeling and a Place-based Evaluation of Environmental Risk-Based Patrol Deployment Strategies
Final Technical Report (PDF) | Results in Brief (PDF) | ICPSR Archived Data | Proven Strategies Matrix, Case Studies & Tips (PDF) | see also: Conjunctive Analysis Report: 6-City Executive Summary PDF

Other Recommended Readings

ARTICLE. Risky Business: Examining the 80-20 Rule in Relation to a RTM Framework. Criminal Justice Review. By Steinman, Drawve, Datta, Harris & Thomas. Link

REPORT. Data Modeling Helps Reduce Risk of Violent Crime in Atlantic City. UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, TReNDS. By Hayden Dahmm. Link

BROCHURE. The Risk-Based Policing Playbook
. Link | PDF

ARTICLE. 2018. Measuring the Effect of Heterogeneity of Police Enforcement Actions Across Spatial Contexts. J of Criminal Justice. By Piza & Gilchrist . Link

ARTICLE. 2017. The Role of Crime Analyst and Researcher Partnerships: A Training Exercise in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Policing. By Drawve et al. Link

ARTICLE. 2016. NIJ Journal No. 276: Using Research to Move Policing Forward. Link

ARTICLE. 2015. Leveraging predictive policing algorithms to restore Fourth Amendment protections in high-crime areas in a post-Wardlow world. Chicago-Kent Law Review. By Kelly K. Koss. Link

ARTICLE. 2014. Policing by numbers: Big data and the Fourth Amendment . Washington Law Review. By Elizabeth E. Joh. Link

ARTICLE. 2013. Targeting Hot Spots Using Problem Solving Foot Patrols in New Haven, CT. Link

ARTICLE. 2012. Predictive policing and reasonable suspicion. Emory Law Review. By Andrew G. Ferguson. Link

REPORT. 2017. The Urban Institute: A Blueprint for Interagency and Cross Jurisdictional Data Sharing. Link (see pg. 32)

REPORT. 2012. Maryland's Highway Safety Performance Plan uses RTM to Determine Optimal Locations for Placement of DUI Checkpoints and Saturation Patrols. Link (see pg. 68)

BRIEFS. 2017. GMU Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy's The Matrix: Research on Micro Places. Link (see Kennedy et al.)

PRESENTATION. 2016. Riverside Shefiff's Office: Criminal Justice System Review. Link (see pg. 44)

TV EPISODE. 2017. National Geographic Channel's 'Breakthrough' series, Featuring Risk-Based Policing in Atlantic City. Link

ESSAY. 2016. RTM is Smarter Policing. An OpEd. By Marces Mendoza. PDF

TRAINING. 2015. RTM is California POST Certified. Link

NEWS. 2014. Spain: RTM increased patrol productivity (efficiency) without increasing the number of detentions or random searches. Link

NEWS. 2014. RTM's predictive policing ability has been analyzed and published in Paris, France.
Link

NEWS. 2017. US Police Use Data to Focus on Places, Not People, and Cut Crime by Up to 40%. Link

NEWS. 2017. Philadelphia Inquirer: Atlantic City's Bold Experiment Takes Racial Bias Out of Predictive Policing. Link

NEWS. 2016. How Data Helps Law Enforcement Turn Criminal 'Playgrounds' Into Safe Spaces. Inverse | Link

NEWS. 2015. Places, Not People, Are the Focus of this New Crime-Fighting Data Analysis Tool. Vice |
Link

NEWS. 2015. New Tech Lets Atlantic City Map Out Crime to Track Trends. Press of Atlantic City | Link

NEWS. 2018. Atlantic City Sees Crime Decrease in First Six Months of the Year. Breaking AC | Link

NEWS. 2018. Predictive Policing One Reason Given for Atlantic City's Violent Crime Drop Last Year. Breaking AC |  Link

NEWS. 2018. Atlantic City Story: A new way to combat crime (PODCAST). Press of Atlantic City | LISTEN

NEWS. 2018. Atlantic City's violent crime decreases with risk-based policing initiative. Press of Atlantic City | Link

NEWS. 2018. Rutgers, A.C. Police Locating and Reducing Crime Risks (OpEd). Press of Atlantic City | Link

NEWS. 2018. Cartographie Criminelle: Surveiller et prédire. Le Monde (French) | Link

NEWS. 2017. New Crime Predictor Helps Police In Atlantic City. Epoch Times | Link

NEWS. 2017. Numbers Show Predictive Policing Working in Atlantic City, Professor Says. Breaking AC | Link
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Criminal Justice. 
123 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102 USA
Copyright (c) All Rights Reserved | Leslie W. Kennedy, Director | Joel M. Caplan, Deputy Director | rutgerscps@gmail.com

  • Home
  • People
  • Topics
  • RTM
    • RTM Intro
    • Certification
    • riskterrainmodeling.com
  • Software
    • RTMDx Gratis
    • RTMDx for Students
    • RTMDx by Simsi
  • Training
    • Professional Services
    • RTM Training Online
    • Course Materials >
      • Download Course Materials
  • News
  • Anchor Initiative
    • NPSC