In New Jersey, Risk Terrain Modeling helps citizens and police in Newark, Atlantic City target crime hot spots – The Washington Post

As a neutral convener, the Public Safety Collaborative hosts regular meetings, which include Newark city officials and police, but mostly nonprofit organizations, business and neighborhood groups. For a point of comparison, whereas the widely popularized police “CompStat” meetings rely heavily on only police resources and crime hot spots, NPSC meetings solicit and value input from multiple community stakeholders to make data-informed decisions following a transparent process of problem definition and information gathering. They all get access to the same data and analytics, add context to these, then form strategies to disrupt the opportunities and contexts for crime at priority places based on their own unique missions and expertise. Their independent initiatives combine to produce a deliberate and impactful response to crime problems throughout the city as a whole.