1. Comprehensive Crime Control
Strategy Development
Moving beyond crime fighting tactics

2. Crime Control Strategy
Few police departments use a crime control strategy
development process or methodology. Most departments
develop and deploy anticrime tactics. These are usually resource
specific, one dimensional tactics designed to counter a specific
crime type for a specific period of time in a specific geographic
area. A comprehensive crime control strategy encompasses a
number of tactics across the entire criminal justice spectrum that
are designed to disrupt specific crime types from several angles
over a long period of time. The benefit of a successful strategy as
compared to a successful tactic, is a strategy targets the crime in
such a way as to permanently deny criminals the opportunity to
commit the specific crime.

3. Elements of a Crime Control Strategy
Process
• Risk Assessment
• Analyze the target crime
• Gain an understanding of engagement points within the
criminal justice system; from before a crime occurs through
offender re-entry
• Develop crime-specific tactics for engagement points
• Develop a strategic communications plan in support of the
strategy
• Identify opportunities to leverage technology in support of
specific tactics and the overall strategy
• Identify performance measurement objects for the strategy
and measure against those objectives on a set period; i.e.
integrate into COMPSTAT

4. Risk Assessment
Risk assessment helps police departments to prioritize their effort,
maximize resource utilization and to understand the at-risk
populations within their community
•Assessment of crime: prevalence of crime by crime type;
determine target crimes based on community expecations
•Assessment of vulnerabilities as they relate to the target crimes
• Vulnerable populations
• Vulnerable locations

5. Analysis of the target crime
• Determine specific aspects of the crime type where you can focus
your tactics; i.e. burglary requires a location, robbery requires a
personal interaction between victim and perpetrator, vehicle
burglary requires a vehicle.
• Determine perpetrator profiles for each crime type – Who are
the people committing the crime? Know your criminal!
• Are they criminals of opportunity, or organized criminal enterprises?

6. Criminal Justice Engagement Points

7. Offender
re-entry
program
• Forensic Evidence & Crime
Scene Processing
• Intelligence-Led Policing
• Proactive policing teams
• Intelligence support for
operations
• Property Marking
• Looking Beyond the Plate
• Data-Driven Approaches to
Crime and Traffic Safety
(DDACTS)
Develop crime-specific tactics for engagement
points
• Justice Advocate Program
Pre-crime Arrest Prosecution Corrections Re-entry

8. Offender
re-entry
program
• Forensic Evidence & Crime
Scene Processing
• Intelligence-Led Policing
• Proactive policing teams
• Intelligence support for
operations
• Property Marking
• Looking Beyond the Plate
• Data-Driven Approaches to
Crime and Traffic Safety
(DDACTS)
Develop a strategic communications plan
• Justice Advocate Program
Pre-crime Arrest Prosecution Corrections Re-entry
Strategic Communications

9. Technology
Offender
re-entry
program
• Forensic Evidence & Crime
Scene Processing
• Intelligence-Led Policing
• Proactive policing teams
• Intelligence support for
operations
• Property Marking
• Looking Beyond the Plate
• Data-Driven Approaches to
Crime and Traffic Safety
(DDACTS)
Identify opportunities to leverage technology
• Justice Advocate Program
Pre-crime Arrest Prosecution Corrections Re-entry
Strategic Communications

10. Identify performance measurement objects
• Use a system of comparative performance measurement,
such as COMPSTAT, to measure effectiveness of the strategy
on a periodic basis
• Modify the strategy as necessary to incorporate new tactics or
technologies

11. Make it comprehensive and the results with be
significant and sustained!
Physical Security
Crime Prevention
Offender Tracking
Public Education
Proactive Policing
Problem-solving Policing

12. Dennis Weiner
weiner8764@comcast.net
561-420-4039 (cell)