1. Policing, Partnership and Place
Professor Jon Bannister
The Manchester Met Crime and Well-Being Big Data Centre

2. The Manchester Met Crime and Well-Being BDC
An approach to co-production that is centred on the blending of professional and scientific knowledge at every stage of the research process.
Impact pathway, capacity building and visualisation.
Expertise in criminology / policing, evaluation and data science / advanced quantitative methodologies.
Secure data centre
Delivery of world-class research, impactful and sustainable outcomes (strategic and operational decision-making).

3. Policing in the C21st: Key challenges
Economy (Austerity), Effectiveness (delivery around ‘place’, rather than organisational structure) and Legitimacy (equity, public support).
Understanding demand: predicting future demand and making best use of resources.
Partnership (service and science).
Making better use of existing data.
The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act (2013): wards (data zones and output areas).
Research: the spatio-temporal patterning of crime and the impact of offenders on crime.

4. 1. Spatial patterning of crime under the crime drop: Is it changing
1. Spatial patterning of crime under the crime drop: Is it changing? Why does it matter?

5. Trends in Crime

6. Trajectories – High(H) and Low (L) groups
Change %: ((Group Mean Group Mean 1998) / Group Mean 1998) * rounded DC %: drop contribution (Sum Total Group Count Sum Group Count 1998)/ (Sum Count All Areas Sum Count All Cases *100 - rounded)

9. Crime concentrations

10. 2. The effect of offender concentrations on crime

13. (Policy) Conclusions
Focus on smaller spatial units (output areas & neighbourhoods) comprising wards – a focus on places not policing administrative boundaries.
How should we balance questions of equity, effectiveness and efficiency?
Differing performance of neighbourhoods - equity, effectiveness and efficiency.
A breakdown in wider area clustering of high crime / Lack of stability of these areas - challenge to effectiveness and efficiency.
Small % of areas (E.g., 2% of OA) experience 50% of all crime - equity.
Offenders (linear relationship to crime) – questions of effectiveness (targeting recently active) and equity (distribution)

14. Questions