role of community policing in the NYPDs policy of use of force

(Smith and Robert , 2005

A panel - data formulation of an interrupted time series model will be simply used . The time series model contains variables that relate to overall city trends , pre - impact -zone trends in the hot -sport precincts and post impact - zone trends in the hot spot precincts . The analysis will involve doing analysis of the impact of the hot - spot intervention for each of the seven major crimes . The seven major crimes include the following murder , rape , robbery burglary grand larceny felony assault it and auto theft

The time

series model that will be used will contain the following format

Crime rate pre - intervention city wide components Pre- intervention zone - precinct components post -intervention zone precinct component include

Constant B1 period B2 period - sq

The pre-intervention Zone - precinct components are B3 Z- noz B4 ZnZ - time B5

ZnZ - per 2 (2003 zones B6 time - 2004 B7 Z2004 - per2 (2004 zones B8 time -2005 B9 Z2005-per2 (2005 zones B10 time -2006 B11 Z2006-per2 (2006 zones

The Hot-spits impact components of the model are B12 Z-active B13 active-time (impact measures B14 md-pst per (zones-ended measure

Each variable will then be defined during the analysis

The time series model looks at the trend in crime over two time periods that is the pre-hot-spot policing and post-impact zone policing

The hot spot-impact section of the model will test for the effects of the impact zone intervention on pre-existing crime trends . These measures indicate whether the hot-spot strategy had an incremental impact on the crime

The pre-intervention component of the model look for differences between the city as a whole and each of four groups of zone-precincts prior to the intervention

The zone-precinct groups are defined by their start-years with separate groupings for precincts where zones are implemented in 2003 , 2004 , 2005 and...