Cambridge Ideas - The Crime Experiment

Eminent criminologist Prof Lawrence Sherman has just set up a long term experiment with the police, to scientifically study crime in Manchester and come up with some solutions. This experiment will study crime hot spots and try out a technique Prof Sherman has developed in USA to lessen crime throughout the city by changing policing at these locations. This is the first time such a systematic experiment on city crime has been mounted in the UK. Part of the Cambridge Ideas series.

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[SamSpade2010]

Put cops in a hotspot. It'll bring down crime there. Thanks, professor.

[ndyt]

No, we will not "all" be a lot safer, the people in the hot spots will be safer and the people where you pull the cops from will be less safe.

When I was in college we had some hot spots. To save money we put "spotters" this the spots. The spotters were just kids with police radios that would call in trouble paid less then half what a cop would cost. Worked well.

[ChurchCrimeScience]

So, logically, the RAT capable guardians against crime in hot spots are incapable only after the area is designated a hot spot?

[muhammadzahmad]

very educational...

[aseohosting]

nice video i learn a lot from it.

Thanks for sharing.

[DeutschAutos]

@mjclarke1974 legalizing crack and pcp would increase violence

[TI33ERT]

Who would have ever thought! Put the police where the crime is..... MAN! I sure wish I would have come up with that one.

[commonman80]

The reason why we have crime is because of the entitlement idiology.

To reduce crime, you have to change this way of thinking.

However, in what we call "Civilized society", entitlements, are taught to us from birth.

Whether we are rich or poor, male or female. "Civilized Society" has pressed this into our heads from day one of our existence, and "crime" is just a (Bi-Product) of it. In other words "crime", is just a matter of opinion.

JMO

[lwanatt]

@mjclarke1974 its true, if you look at the data, almost all domestic crime is committed by impoverished individuals, and when you consider the abundance of wealth on the planet, the true blame lies with greedy people who wont stop till they can horde the whole world to themselves, if only more people realized this fundamental truth we could at least START work on a solution

[allenthefury]

NO NO I am THEE professor !! forgetful...and...forgetfall?!

[inergee1]

ban alcohol if you wanna decrease crime, untill they keep selling alcohol around the corner, they will always be crime!

[inergee1]

ban alcohol if you wanna decrease crime, untill they keep selling alcohol around the corner, they will always be crime!