@article{ref1,
title="Reducing Firearms Violence Through Directed Police Patrol",
journal="Criminology and public policy",
year="2001",
author="McGarrell, Edmund F. and Chermak, Steven and Weiss, Alexander and Wilson, Jeremy",
volume="1",
number="1",
pages="119-148",
abstract="Research Summary:  This evaluation of a directed police patrol project utilizes a pre-post quasi-experimental design with a non-equivalent control group as well as an interrupted time series analysis. The results suggest that directed patrol had an impact on firearms crime in one of the target areas but not the other.<p />",
language="",
issn="1538-6473",
doi="10.1111/j.1745-9133.2001.tb00079.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9133.2001.tb00079.x"
}