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Smart Policing Initiative (SPI)

Publications & Performance Reports

The Role of Technology in the Strategies for Policing Innovation Program: Challenges, Solutions, and Lessons Learned -- Hardware Edition
This report provides case study reviews of Strategies for Policing Innovation sites whose initiatives implemented different hardware technologies: body-worn cameras (Phoenix, Arizona), closed-circuit television (Pullman, Washington), and gunshot location and detection systems (East Palo Alto, California).

The Role of Technology in the Strategies for Policing Innovation Program: Challenges, Solutions, and Lessons Learned -- Software Edition
This report provides case study reviews of sites where Strategies for Policing Innovation initiatives implemented two software technologies: risk terrain modeling (New Haven, Connecticut) and social network analysis (Cincinnati, Ohio; Glendale, Arizona; and Kansas City, Missouri).

Understanding and Responding to Crime and Disorder Hot Spots
This guide highlights hot spots policing and uses the scanning, analysis, response, and assessment (SARA) model as a framework to discuss the process of understanding and responding to hot spots.

Boston, Massachusetts, Strategies for Policing Innovation II - Improving Homicide Clearance Rates: The Value of Analysis to Guide Investments in Investigative Policies and Practices
With the support of BJA using Strategies for Policing Innovation1 (SPI) funds, the Boston Police Department engaged in a problem-oriented policing enterprise to understand the underlying nature of its homicide clearance problem, develop appropriate responses to enhance its investigations of homicide victimizations, and evaluate the impact of the implemented intervention.

See the Publications section of the SPI site for topical and site spotlight reports.

Date Modified: January 21, 2022
Date Created: December 13, 2019