Broken Windows/Public Order Policing in High-Crime Areas (CA)

This is a hot spot policing approach centered on the “broken windows” strategy conducted in three California cities. It aims to reduce the sense of insecurity and fear of crime, as well as to increase the perception of police effectiveness among neighbors.
The intervention involves reallocating police resources to small areas with high crime rates to reduce neighborhood disorder and crime. The approach is applied to 55 blocks that receive an additional three hours of police attention per week on top of the normal level of policing.

Effect of Hot Spots Policing Strategies on Citizen-Officer Interactions (St. Louis, Missouri)

This is a combined intervention of two policing strategies in residential areas with high crime rates: problem-solving approach and selective patrolling. The objective is to improve civilian perceptions of policing and to encourage fair policing.
The problem-solving approach consists of four components:
1) Problem identification and selection;
2) Problem analysis and understanding;
3) Problem-oriented intervention; and
4) Problem impact assessment.

Programa Haz su Parte (El Salvador) (El Salvador)

The Educación Comunitaria para la Prevención de la Violencia de Género - ECPVG (Community Education Program for the Prevention of Gender Violence), better known as Haz su Parte (Do your Part), aims to facilitate the process of raising awareness and critical reflection of adolescents regarding the eradication of gender violence against adolescent girls and young women. To this end, the program seeks to improve conflict management skills and change attitudes towards gender-based violence.

Weed and Seed Initiative: Gang-Related Crackdown (Florida, U.S.A.)

This is a multi-agency community program focused on dismantling gangs. The goal is to enforce the law, prevent crime and restore neighborhoods.

The strategy envisioned establishing and maintaining contact with citizens interested in crime reduction, as well as providing additional resources for prevention and problem-solving practices. The gang dismantling initiative targeted two gangs involved in violent crime and drug trafficking. Thirty-eight convictions followed an 18-month investigation of members of both gangs.

Broken Windows Thesis: A Hot Spots Policing Intervention

This is an intervention that applies the broken windows thesis to hot spots. The goal is to eliminate visible signs of disorder and crime in the neighborhood in order to actually reduce crime and increase the perception of safety among residents.
Police officers were instructed not to ignore any physical or social disorder in the targeted areas, but were free to choose which tactics to apply in each case. A total of 55 streets were selected to receive additional shifts of 3 hours of police patrolling per week. The intervention lasted 6 months.

Drug Treatment Courts (Chile)

This is a drug treatment court (DTC) model that was established in Chile in 2004 to reduce drug-related crime through an alternative that emphasizes substance use treatment and community supervision of offenders. The main role of the courts is to redirect offenders toward rehabilitation under judicial supervision to facilitate the stages of change and encourage adherence to treatment.

Stepping Stones and Creating Futures (South Africa)

The Stepping Stones and Creating Futures (SSCF) program consists of a structured intervention that works with both women and men, and it is based on the assumption that the perpetration of intimate partner violence (by men) is associated with gender inequality and poverty.
The program has two components:
1) Stepping Stones (South African version), which involves a 10-session participatory curriculum on HIV and violence prevention delivered to single-sex groups by trained peers.

Training of Employees of Women's Police Stations (Medellín)

The Family Police Stations of Medellín are linked to the National Family Welfare System (SNBF) and provide legal and psychosocial support to families. Among their main functions is to prevent, guarantee, restore, and repair the rights of family members in situations of domestic violence. These police stations are also responsible for referring victims, as appropriate, to other specialized institutions to ensure adequate follow-up of cases.