Infusing Community Policing Strategies into Hot Spots Policing Practices: The Impacts on Police-Community Relations in a Mid-Sized City, Urbana, Illinois, 2018

The purpose of this project was to study the implementation of hot spots policing in Urbana, Illinois. "Hot spots" policing refers to a range of strategies which use crime-mapping technologies to concentrate police resources to high crime areas. The goal was to evaluate two different hot spot policing strategies, targeted patrol versus community policing, and measure their effects on police-community relations and police legitimacy. Variables included perceptions of crime, collective efficacy, police satisfaction, police interactions, and demographic variables including race, gender, education, income, and marital status.