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22 Crim. Just. Pol'y Rev. 350 (2011)
Constructing Hot Spots Policing: Unexamined Consequences for Disadvantaged Populations and for Police Legitimacy

handle is hein.journals/cjpr22 and id is 343 raw text is: Constructing Hot Spots Policing: Unexamined Consequences for Disadvantaged Populations and for Police Legitimacy Criminal Justice Policy Review 22(3) 350-374 © 2011 SAGE Publications Reprints and permission: http://www. sagepub.com/journals Permissions.nav DOI: 10. 1177/0887403410376233 http://cjp.sagepub.com $SAGE Tammy Rinehart Kochel' Abstract Police practitioners and academics alike have heralded hot spots policing as evidence-based practice. It has encountered few hurdles in its path to widespread implementation in the United States. Examining the social construction of its diffusion, including the empirical, theoretical, social-political, technological, and media contexts that converged to promote its diffusion, reveals a partial, positively skewed image perpetuated among the public, scholars, and policymakers. Through a different lens, hot spots policing might have led to concerns about legitimacy, discussion of bias, and lack of public support. Instead, the infectious popularity of this reform may thus far have buffered it from critical consideration of the potentially disproportionate impact of hot spots policing on disadvantaged community members and its consequences for police legitimacy-evidence that should be important to evidence-based practice. This article promotes a research agenda that extends beyond short term crime- reduction to investigate these important unstudied consequences. Keywords hot spots policing, legitimacy, disproportionate impact, reform diffusion Few reforms can claim the unilateral success that evaluations of hot spots policing provide. A recent meta-analysis on hot spots policing provides persuasive empirical evidence of its crime reduction benefits (Braga, 2005). As a consequence, recently, 'Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL Corresponding Author: Tammy Rinehart Kochel, Southern Illinois University, Faner Hall MS 4504, Carbondale, IL 62901 Email: tkochel@siu.edu

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