Develop risk narratives to understand situational contexts and opportunities for crime at particular places.
A risk narrative is like a story about how crime incidents connect to places. It accounts for how people interact in and around particular places to create unique opportunities for crime at specific times of the day, week or year. Risk narratives help police and other community stakeholders talk spatially about crime events and illegal behaviors, and how to prevent crimes by focusing on the settings that are most vulnerable to them.
For example, when community stakeholders used data-informed risk narratives to surmise that drugs, retail businesses, and vacant properties are related to gun violence, they were more likely to agree with police that certain places will probably experience shooting incidents in the future. This led to conversations about how to effectively target and remediate the problems in these locations. That is, to disrupt the risk narrative and prevent crime with a focus on places, not people.
Areas around laundromats received directed police patrols; police officer ‘meet-and-greets’ with convenience store managers were implemented at frequent intervals each day; and the city’s Planning Department prioritized remediation of vacant properties and installations of new LED street lights (to replace dimmer halogen lamps) at the highest risk places.
Risk narratives enable effective risk governance. They help police and other city officials articulate crime problems in diverse ways, beyond those tied to established paradigms, practices, or procedures. They empower several agencies to coordinate their efforts and share the burden of crime prevention. Risk narratives encourage reasoning with hypotheses, whereby preconceived notions about a crime problem and its relationships to space and time are tested and then addressed accordingly.
Risk terrain modeling informs and advances risk narratives. As a diagnostic tool, RTM identifies place features that connect with crime patterns. Risk narratives bring practical meaning and context to the analytical results. Risk narratives informed by RTM are actionable and help you prevent crime while meeting community expectations.
A risk narrative is like a story about how crime incidents connect to places. It accounts for how people interact in and around particular places to create unique opportunities for crime at specific times of the day, week or year. Risk narratives help police and other community stakeholders talk spatially about crime events and illegal behaviors, and how to prevent crimes by focusing on the settings that are most vulnerable to them.
For example, when community stakeholders used data-informed risk narratives to surmise that drugs, retail businesses, and vacant properties are related to gun violence, they were more likely to agree with police that certain places will probably experience shooting incidents in the future. This led to conversations about how to effectively target and remediate the problems in these locations. That is, to disrupt the risk narrative and prevent crime with a focus on places, not people.
Areas around laundromats received directed police patrols; police officer ‘meet-and-greets’ with convenience store managers were implemented at frequent intervals each day; and the city’s Planning Department prioritized remediation of vacant properties and installations of new LED street lights (to replace dimmer halogen lamps) at the highest risk places.
Risk narratives enable effective risk governance. They help police and other city officials articulate crime problems in diverse ways, beyond those tied to established paradigms, practices, or procedures. They empower several agencies to coordinate their efforts and share the burden of crime prevention. Risk narratives encourage reasoning with hypotheses, whereby preconceived notions about a crime problem and its relationships to space and time are tested and then addressed accordingly.
Risk terrain modeling informs and advances risk narratives. As a diagnostic tool, RTM identifies place features that connect with crime patterns. Risk narratives bring practical meaning and context to the analytical results. Risk narratives informed by RTM are actionable and help you prevent crime while meeting community expectations.
A risk narrative is like a story about how crime incidents connect to places.
Risk narratives enable effective risk governance.
Risk narratives informed by RTM are actionable and help you prevent crime while meeting community expectations.