Reducing Crime Through Landscape Design

Wednesday, March 21, 2007 03:59 AM

What if you could reduce crime by 20% in your neighbourhood?

The recipe for making that happen is the focus of a special day long session at the Ramada Hotel today. Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design explores the proven direct relatinship between the physical environment, our fear of crime, and the opportunity for crime to occur.

C.P.T.E.D. is the most effective crime prevention technique in use today.

There is also a special hour and a half session in the evening. That evening session is free, and it starts at 7:00.

Some of the merchants in downtown Prince George had already suggested some ideas

using crushed stone instead of river rock as a landscape cover as the river rocks are just tools for smashing windows
placement of materials when the repair shift is over i.e. a pallet full of landscaping bricks is a pallet full of window breaking materials.
shrubs too close to a doorway provide hiding spaces
more lighting

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Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 03:59 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: lunarguy on March 21 2007 7:32 AM

The solution to reducing crime by 20% is that when the criminals are caught, instead of getting a suspended sentence or back out on the street in a few days is to lock them up for two years, less a day. We hear on the news time and time again about some career criminal who has broken into 20 - 30 houses and served no meaningful time.

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on March 21 2007 7:58 AM

Well we could use the crooks as the labour to build these parks. When the rest of the crooks see there buddies doing useful work that aught to scare the hell out of them. That might even reduce crime by 20%!

Posted by: giterdun on March 21 2007 8:06 AM

RIGHT ON !! THE CRIMINALS SHOULD BE OUT THERE IN BLACK AND WHITE STRIPED COVERALLS PICKING UP LITTER AND CLEANING STREETS. SORRY ,I GUESS THATS AGAINST THE CHARTER.

Posted by: owl on March 21 2007 10:04 AM

Black and white stipes?????

If I saw that I would be wondering which history movie they are in town to shoot now.

Hey, that reminds me, when was the last time there was a movie in town?

Posted by: Harbinger on March 21 2007 2:42 PM

Can't have these criminals taking away union jobs now. Can we? That would never do.

Posted by: lmorg on March 23 2007 6:30 PM

Reduce crime by landscape design. I'm all for it.
Number 1 on the agenda: Napalm the entire downtown core including the halfway houses, bring in the biggest D9 Cat in the world, clear away the scum and then rebuild.