Empirical Support
Ratcliffe's Camden drug corner project The City of Camden, New Jersey was once considered one of the most violent cities in the world. This was was attributed to the large amount of violent crimes that were reported in the city. The large amount of violent crime was attributed to the disputed gang corners. On these gang corners, rival gangs would often dispute territory boundaries of where they could sell drugs.By gathering information on which corners where most violent Ratcliffe was able to provide a strategy that would facilitate change. The Camden study found that the majority of crime took place in areas that had multiple gangs. Also through interviews with police officers the study also found that the majority of police work being done would focus more on gang activity rather than the location of said activity. Therefore in order to change the environment the police department of Camden would use a location denial strategy. This would mean that Camden PD would place a police officer in these locations until they were no longer disputed. (Ratcliffe,Taniguchi 2007)
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