Place Network Investigations to Secure Risky Facilities

Place Network Investigations (PNI) are used to identify risky facilities and eliminate crime opportunities. Originally designed as a gun violence reduction strategy, PNI focuses on entrenched networks of risky facilities that create persistent crime patterns in systemic violent hot spots. This lecture will describe the four types of risky places that form crime place networks and explain how these networks sustain illicit markets and promote violent interactions. The lecture will conclude with a discussion of how the PNI strategy can be used to identify risky facilities, reduce crime in vulnerable communities, promote a holistic governance public safety model, and offer new paths toward effective police reform.