Canadian Policing Research Catalogue

Do initiatives involving substantial increases in stop and search reduce crime? Assessing the impact of Operation BLUNT 2 / Rhydian McCandless, Andy Feist, James Allan and Nick Morgan.

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This paper examines whether a police initiative that involved a large increase in the number of stop and searches was effective at reducing crime. Nine measures of police recorded crime were used in the analysis. These included: different types of assault involving sharp instruments; robbery; weapons and drugs possession offences; and three types of acquisitive crime.

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1. Overview, aims and objectives. -- 2. Evidence on the effectiveness of stop and search on reducing crime. -- US evidence. -- UK evidence. -- Summary. -- 3. Assessing the impact of Operation BLUNT 2 on crime. -- Data. -- 4. Methodology. -- Operation BLUNT 2 and the increase in stop and search. -- 5. Descriptive analysis. -- 6. Statistical analysis. -- Unconditional difference-in-difference regression. -- Conditional difference-in-difference regression. -- 7. Results. -- Conditional difference-in-difference – results. -- 8. Limitations of this study. -- 9. Concluding observations.

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