The NYPD has implemented a new policing strategy that focuses on directing officers into specific zones, crossing precinct boundaries, to effectively combat crime. This method, termed flooding the zone, utilizes crime data to identify areas experiencing high rates of crime. Since the adoption of this strategy, major crime across the city has decreased by 15%. With the establishment of Specialty Borough Zones, police have been deployed more flexibly and efficiently, allowing them to respond to crime hot spots regardless of precincts, demonstrating a proactive measure in crime prevention.
In a world of limited resources, you can't flood the zone across a four-square-mile precinct, and you don't need to, but you can do that across 10 problematic blocks.
Perpetrators don't know precinct boundaries. The analysis shows us where we need to be.
It comes down to putting police officers in the right areas ... at the right times.
The new method, a collaboration among various NYPD units, is intended to make cops more fluid to operate outside the boundaries of the precincts they typically report into.
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