Research continues to show that focusing police resources on very small, highly concentrated crime locations can reduce crime. But once hot spots are identified, what should officers do when they arrive at them? How should they spend their time? What tactics and strategies should they implement? The Micro-Places slab of our Evidence-Based Policing Matrix shows numerous examples and interventions targeting very small geographic locations such as a block, street segment, alley, intersection, specific address or cluster of addresses. The Hot Spots Lab serves as a resource for implementing this important research finding in practice across different types of jurisdictions.

Readings and Videos:

• Procedural Justice in Hot Spots (Weisburd et al., 2022)
• Hot Spots Experiment in Sacramento
• Institutionalizing Hot Spots in Minneapolis
• Crime Reduction Areas in Alexandria
• NIJ Real World Seminar: Hot Spots Policing
• Use of Patrol and Problem-Solving at Hot Spots
• Hot Spots: Case of Places
• Jacksonville Operation Safe Streets
• Putting Hot Spots Research into Practice