Is Crime Widespread? To reduce crime, you should focus on the tiny fraction of addresses that experience most of the crime.

The article offers tips to city officials on implementing crime-reduction initiatives that cost less and do not antagonize communities. It discusses studies indicating that crime is concentrated, not widespread as popularly believed. It describes steps to follow in taking the crime concentration challenge in a city, town or county. It explains the importance of focusing on addresses, using the 80/20 rule and identifying the causes of crime to the success of a crime-reduction initiative.