The Mayor of the City of Edmonton established a task force to recommend an evidence based strategy to reduce crime through prevention to complement policing. The City Council adopted the recommendations to create and fund Reach Edmonton Council for Safe Communities, which is a nine point plan including actions to reduce youth and aboriginal crime as well as establish a leadership centre to plan and evaluate initiatives.
Le maire de la ville d’Edmonton a établi un groupe de travail chargé de recommander une stratégie fondée sur des preuves pour réduire la criminalité à travers la prévention afin de compléterles actions des services de police en place. Le conseil municipal a adopté les recommandations pour créer et financer REACH Edmonton Council for SafeCommunities, qui est un plan en neuf points qui inclus des mesures pour réduire la criminalité chez les jeunes et ses Autochtones, ainsi que l’établissement d’un centre d’expertise dont le mandat est mettre en place et évaluer les diverses initiatives.
This publication was influential in informing the policies of the Cameron government in England and Wales. It looks at the research on the effectiveness on crime reduction strategies and uses this to recommend actions that will reduce and stop crime at less cost.
The United Kingdom has adopted the slogan of less crime, less costs proposed by the Think Tank Policy Exchange based on Less Law, More Order.
Mexico has adopted legislation that establishes a national crime prevention center and will promote evidence based strategies to reverse the escalation in violence and stop crime.
States such as Hidalgo and Guanajuato are implementing actions. (pdf)
The vice-president of Argentina and the Minister of Justice of Ecuador are just two leading politicians in Latin America who have met with Waller and are using the Spanish version of Less Law, More Order. The Chinese Public Safety University has translated Less Law, More Order: The Truth about Reducing Crime into Chinese for use in reducing rising crime rates.
Making Cities Safer: Action Briefs for Municipal Stakeholders is a popular publication for municipal stakeholders such as mayors, city councilors, police chiefs, school board executives and housing leaders. It takes research, international standards and successes and puts them into short action briefs that are easy for decision makers to use to reduce and stop crime, and organise sustainable prevention strategies.
The Province of Alberta, Canada became the first jurisdiction in the world to invest in a sustained and comprehensive strategy to use evidence to reduce crime and respect crime victims’ rights. It has invested $500 million in new money in a combination of smart enforcement, pre-crime treatment programs and social prevention to reduce crime over 3 years.
This task force faced the challenge of high rates of interpersonal violence in South Africa during the Mandela years by recommending ways in the White Paper on Safety and Security for local and regional government to tackle the causes of violence and apply research results to stop violence.
This non-governmental commission replicated the Presidential Commissions in the 1960´s by analyzing the problems of crime and incarceration in the USA. It looked to applying the results of research to halting violence as well as implementing international standards to advance the human rights of victims of crime.
