The effects of aggressive policing of disorder on serious crime

This paper adds to a growing body of research which explores the relationsh ip between aggressive police strategies and serious crime. For one month, p olice enforced disorder crime in a small section of one community. An inter rupted time series analysis was utilized to evaluate the effects of this in tervention on robbery and aggravated burglary in a target area and a contro l area. The strategy was found to be unrelated to levels of aggravated burg lary and robbery in the target area. There was no spatial displacement of c rime. Explanations for the findings are offered.