Abstract

SANDOVAL GARRIDO, Luis Eduardo; VELASQUEZ MONROY, César Alfonso  and  RIANO BERMUDEZ, Laura Carolina. POLICE NETWORK ANALYSIS APPLIED TO STREET CRIME CONTROL IN BOGOTÁ. Rev.econ.inst. [online]. 2024, vol.26, n.50, pp.145-173.  Epub Mar 12, 2024. ISSN 0124-5996.  https://doi.org/10.18601/01245996.v26n50.07.

The community police models, together with the georeferencing of crime and work focused on solving specific problems, have allowed improving indicators of attention to crime and the perception of security in cities. However, little care has been placed in these models for cooperative networks between patrols organized by districts or urban sectors, to maintain an articulated action that compensates for the scarcity of police resources and avoids overtargeting. This article analyzes the interaction between the network of police reinforcements and homicides and personal thefts in Bogotá, capital of Colombia. Exponential random graph (ERG) models, network analysis, and georeferenced gamma estimates of criminal behavior are used. At the level of the police sectors known as Commands for Immediate Attention (CAI), it is found that patrol network organization schemes are conditioned by the city's socioeconomic segregation patterns which limits the scope of the network in control of the crimes.

Keywords : Networks, Police, Security, Crimes, Homicides, Thefts; JEL: D85, H56, K40, K42, C72.

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