The violent crime reduction plan created by a team of UTSA criminologists consists of multiple strategies, though only the short-term “hot spot policing” has been put into place. But the UTSA professor overseeing the plan says data from January through June appear to show it paying off.
– A plan to combat violent crime in San Antonio is off to a promising start, according to San Antonio’s police chief and the University of Texas at San Antonio professor overseeing it.
The hot spot strategy boils down to dividing the city into 100-meter-wide grid squares, identifying which grid areas have the most violent street crimes, and then having officers sit in the area during peak crime hours with their emergency lights flashing as a highly visible deterrent to crime. The goal was to have officers do this for 15-minute spurts.The overall rate of specific violent street crimes like robbery, non-family aggravated assaults, murders, and deadly conduct was down 12.
The “Crimes Against Persons” category, which includes most violent crimes, was down 10.9% compared to the same period last year.
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