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This brief examines proactive steps police can take to lessen the
potential for disaster, improve preparedness for disasters that do
occur and enhance our ability to respond to and recover from them.
Featuring several countries across the globe as case studies, it
illustrates the predictability of various natural and manmade
disasters and the need of the local police organizations to develop
contingency plans to save lives and structures. With disaster
losses and the human toll reaching staggering rates, and even more
destructive events projected for the future as the climate shifts,
there is a need for action by police and the local communities
together. This volume offers a proactive plan that needs to be put
in place for future crises, based on the projected predictability
of reoccurring events. The brief can serve as a template for other
countries and police task forces that have and will face similar
crises situations in the future.
This brief examines 36,263 homicides in Chicago over a 53-year
study period, 1965 through 2017, at micro place grid cells of 150
by 150 meters. This study shows not only long-term historical
patterns of homicides in Chicago, but also places that historical
context of homicide in reference to the dramatic increases in
homicides in 2016-2017. It uses several different inequality
metrics, as well as kernel density maps to demonstrate that
homicides were more clustered in the 1960's compared to later
periods. Using zero inflated group-based trajectory models, it
demonstrates the long-term temporal stability of homicides at micro
places. This brief will be of interest to researchers in policing,
homicide, and research methods in criminology.
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