Family Solutions Program (FSP)

This is a multi-family group intervention program consisting of ten sessions aimed at adolescents who have committed their first offense against the law. The goal is to help parents establish positive influences on adolescent behavior through the development of social skills that contribute to a successful adult life.

Women’s Emergency Centers (Peru)

These are free public centers established in 1999 by the Peruvian Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations. In 2014, there were 226 Women’s Emergency Centers (CEM, for their acronym in Spanish), covering 100% of the 24 regions and 96% of all Peruvian provinces.
They aim to strengthen the judicial system’s ability to detect, prosecute, and support victims of domestic and sexual violence with an interdisciplinary approach that includes legal, social, and psychological dimensions.

Safe Street Teams

Street policing strategy program focused on rapid response to violent crime and drug-related problems.

Intervention occurs through the apprehension and deterrence of individuals who have committed violent crimes or have contributed to creating a disorderly environment in certain areas.

It involves situational and environmental actions, such as the provision of police officers in target areas, graffiti removal, and community social services interventions to encourage community participation in crime prevention.

Body-Worn Cameras (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

This is a voluntary program to implement body cameras to be worn by police officers. The goal is to reduce abuse of police force incidents and civilian complaints.
Police officers are required to turn on their cameras as soon as they encounter certain incidents and turn them off when they have completed their approach. Recordings must be classified by type of event and cannot be viewed by police officers, except in specific situations, such as investigations and court appearances, where the recordings are considered evidence in the case.

Kansas City Gun Experiment, Research in Brief

This is a patrol program focused on hot spots with the highest incidence of gun crime.
Police sweeps (in an 8x10-block area) were conducted in Kansas City for 29 weeks, and increased patrols were conducted at locations identified by computer analysis as having a high number of gun crimes in the target area.
The deployed officers focused exclusively on gun detection through proactive, targeted patrols and were not required to respond to calls for service.