This is a predictive policing strategy that directs special operations to small property crime-prone locations. The objective of the program is to prevent an increase in crime.
The program consists of two types of activities:
1) Identifying on a monthly basis the areas that are most prone to property crime based on past property crime rates, juvenile arrest records, emergency calls, and seasonal variation patterns; and
2) Hiring additional police forces to conduct various police interventions in the identified areas.
Areas where there was an anticipated 40% or greater likelihood of property crime were identified as hot spots and received targeted patrolling and other strategies implemented by police officers. Monthly meetings were held to discuss and analyze data collection activities, as well as to check crime rates and maps, in order to disseminate the information collected in the field.