Million-Dollar Blocks - Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics - page 136

FROM CRIME MAPS TO ADMISSIONS MAPS
If crime maps succeeded dramatically in mobilizing public opinion—redefining the
city as a mosaic of safe and unsafe spaces and forcing the reallocation and target -
ing of police resources on specific neighborhoods—the gains were short-lived. The
resulting crime prevention techniques and the community policing movement in
general soon reached the inevitable limits of any purely tactical approach. The city
spaces that were targeted became safer, but too often, crime incidents were simply
displaced to other locations.
Crimedensitymap,Brooklyn,NewYork,1998.