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Crime scientist pitches ‘place network’ strategy, cites local pilot success at Breaker Lane
Summary
Dr. Tamara Harold told the Public Safety Committee that Place Network Investigations target crime networks of sites, convergent settings and corrupting spots; she cited national pilots (Cincinnati) and local work around 900 E. Breaker Lane where operations reduced activity and led to arrests and seizures.
Dr. Tamara Harold, a crime scientist recently affiliated with the National Institute of Justice and now at Texas State University, briefed the Public Safety Committee on Place Network Investigations (PNI) on Dec. 1 and urged a citywide, multiagency approach to disrupt persistent micro‑locations of gun violence.
Harold said crime concentrates in a small number of places and in networks of sites that include the crime site itself, nearby convergent public settings, privately controlled “comfort spaces,” and…
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