Street Lighting in Dudley

An impact evaluation found that, with improved street lighting, there was a 41% decrease in crime incidence and a 23% decrease in crime prevalence, compared to a 3% reduction only in areas not benefiting from the program. There was a small reduction in fear of crime among residents of the target areas, and no evidence of displacement of crime to adjacent areas [1].

Reduced Probation Caseload in Evidence-Based Setting

This program seeks to reduce recidivism by high-risk offenders on probation by assigning them intensive supervision by a staff member with a reduced caseload and through the use of evidence-based practices.
The intervention develops the following actions:
1) Risk and needs assessment;
2) Separation of specialized domestic violence, sex offender, mental health, and similar cases;
3) Systematization of services and treatment centers for situations assessed as medium- or high-risk;

High Point Drug Market Intervention

This is a deterrence-based policing program aimed at eliminating open drug markets and associated problems without resorting to mass incarceration of low-quantity traffickers.
It includes three phases:
1) In the identification phase, areas with the highest crime density and high drug prevalence are detected. Identification of those locations is done through the sharing of information among criminal justice agencies, such as mapping of drug arrests, calls for police service, and review of serious crimes at hot spots;

Operation Ceasefire (Oakland, California)

This program utilizes targeted deterrence strategies to reduce or control gang violence.
The city of Oakland hired the California Partnership for Safe Communities (CPSC) to help devise an intervention capable of reducing gun violence. CPSC established a partnership with the Oakland Police Department (OPD) to understand the underlying nature of gun violence in the city. OPD leads an interagency group consisting of federal law enforcement and state and local criminal justice agencies.
The intervention carried out the following actions:

Injurious Reintegration Experiments

This is a restorative justice conferencing program between youth involved in property crimes with a victim. When used as an alternative to the judicial process, restorative justice conferencing promotes a meeting between the youth who admitted to the crime, his or her advocates, the victim, the victim's advocates, a police officer, and a moderator and allows for low stigmatization, faster reintegration of the youth into the community, and less future offending.

Cook County (IL) State Attorney's Deferred Prosecution Program (DPP)

This is an alternative sentencing program designed to divert first-time, non-violent offenders from the criminal justice system.
Defendants are supervised by the program for 12 months, having to appear in court for an initial hearing and once every three months thereafter. After the initial trial, defendants are supervised monthly by a pretrial service officer.
For certain offenses, defendants are required to comply with educational and work conditions, including full restitution to the victim or owner and participation in community service.

Operation Thumbs Down (Los Angeles)

This is an FBI anti-gang strategy. The aim is to reduce violent crime in communities by identifying and dismantling violent groups through collaboration with federal agents, specialized analysts, and police officers.
The strategy consists of monitoring gang members for about a year using cameras, wiretaps, witnesses, and tip-offs to track down the organization’s leaders. Once the gang has been dismantled, the intervention offers community assistance and urbanization services, as well as a community event to raise awareness regarding gang violence.

Operation Cul-de-Sac

This program consists of the installation of permanent traffic barriers and access control in high-crime neighborhoods in the city of Los Angeles, and its main objective is to reduce gang violence and homicides in targeted areas.
The main intervention consisted of closing streets for access control, although in the first year this was combined with more intensive levels of surveillance in the areas surrounding the intervention. This was one of the first programs in the country to use this strategy for crime control.

Targeted Beat Program (Houston, United States)

This is a police program to reduce crime in hot spot areas in the city of Houston.
Officers were released from their normal duties and assigned full-time to hot spot areas with the aim of maintaining police presence and reducing crime, with strategies adapted to the demands of each area.
Different strategies were adopted: high-visibility approach, hot spot approach, zero tolerance, and problem-solving approach.