Development and Application of Best Practice-Based Crime Reduction Strategies

Sometimes a city or police department’s most acute point of need is focused principally on establishing more effective ways to reduce overall levels of crime.

Typically, the SLC brings to these challenges practical and innovative insights that emphasize the combination of problem-solving approaches with specific crime prevention techniques. Today, the leading edge of academic research into this area supports a combination of these two practices as one of the most promising approaches to crime control and reduction.

• Sample Areas of Expertise: The Hillard Heintze SLC brings a wealth of expertise and experience to a wide range of crime-reduction challenges – such as family violence, domestic abuse and crime against children, women or the elderly; hate crimes; repeat offenders; targeted violence and crime in schools; mass demonstrations and uprisings; traffic stop policies and practices; hostage scenarios; suicide bomb threats; crime mapping; race-neutral profiling; and drugs and gang violence.
• The Council’s Approach: Depending on the nature of the client’s need, we can provide either direct leadership and accountability or indirect facilitation and counsel to many key tasks supporting crime reduction strategies. These include, for example, setting strategic aims and objectives; identifying and evaluating options; analyzing cost, benefits and effectiveness; establishing a management framework for strategy implementation; measuring performance; developing action plans; estimating funding requirements; and defining human resources and training needs.