Tag: Crime Prevention

Command

How the Birmingham Police Department is Addressing Violent Crime

Birmingham ended 2024 with 152 homicides, the highest number of killings in the city ever, breaking the record of 148 set in 1933. The lowlight of a violent year was the Sept. 21 mass shooting at the Hush Lounge that killed four.

March 12, 2025

Patrol

Charlotte Police to Run Steady Blue Lights on Vehicles at All Times

“The goal of this change is to enhance visibility of our officers using one of the best assets that we have -- and that’s our police vehicles and our blue lights,” Lt. Kevin Pietrus said.

December 11, 2024

Command

Pittsburgh Police to Adopt Higher Presence Downtown

Police said the new "high-visibility police patrol initiative" aims to create a safer environment around the clock. The Violence Prevention and Cycle units, along with K9s, will focus on specific areas and issues.

July 10, 2024

Command

Kansas City Police Chief Announces Plan to Reduce Violent Crime

The crime plan outlines three main strategies for police to implement: data-informed community engagement (DICE), data-driven deployment and focused deterrence.

April 4, 2024

Technology

LiveView Technologies Helps 2 Cities Reduce Crime

“We needed a security system which could be deployed quickly, and placed in exact locations without the concern of power or internet,” said Corey Lowe, research scientist at the Loss Prevention Research Council. “The LVT Units fulfilled this need.”

August 22, 2023

Patrol

Dave Smith: No Lessons Learned

In the 1980s and 1990s crime was out of control in this country and our leaders did something about it. Now they have abandoned that mission and crime has come back.

January 3, 2023

Patrol

DC Police Unveil Amazon Package Lockers at Two Police Stations

"What we’re hoping is if it works well here as a pilot, we’re going to take it to other districts in the city," says Altieri.

September 1, 2022

Patrol

WI Agency Asks Gun Owners to Send in Spent Casings for Theft Investigations

“The next time you're at the range, please collect two spent shell casings from your firearm,” says Sgt. Dan Knitter, of the Milwaukee Police Department. “Place the casings into an Operation Save-A-Casing envelope or other container and keep them in a safe place.”

July 8, 2022

Patrol

FOP Issues Statement Supporting "Broken Windows" Policing

"We have to address this now with a sense of urgency, which is why I was so heartened to see the recent comments by New York City Mayor and former police captain Eric Adams calling for a return to “broken windows” policing," FOP President Patrick Yoes said.

March 29, 2022

Command

New York City Going Back to Some "Broken Windows" Policing

Adams summoned Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell and Chief of Department Kenneth Corey to City Hall on Tuesday to answer for the surge in bloodshed that left 29 people wounded ahead of his planned news conference on the NYPD’s new anti-gun units, law-enforcement sources said Wednesday.

March 24, 2022

Patrol

Welcome to Kabul, USA

The parallel between the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and the precipitous withdrawal from proactive policing on American streets is astonishing—in both cases, the result is chaos.

August 20, 2021

Special Units

Portland Officers Declining Opportunity to Join Gun Violence Unit

The uniformed squad, dubbed the Focused Intervention Team, is designed to fight gun violence proactively with a patrol presence on Portland streets. The plan has been to have the team cover seven days a week to get guns off the street directed by police intelligence, identify people involved in recent shootings and “interrupt the cycle of violence.”

July 21, 2021