Experimentally testing police visibility via a visual detection exercise: Can the public spot the police vehicle?

2025/08/13 by Rylan Simpson · 1 voice · 1 citation
Engineering · Social Sciences · #Crime Patterns and Interventions #Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics #Traffic and Road Safety

paper · doi:10.1007/s11292-025-09685-6

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Citations

• The Philadelphia predictive policing experiment

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Discussions

• 🚨 Police visibility = important metric for many policing activities. It’s often assumed that physical presence of police equates to public sightings of police. But do ppl always see police when the [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]