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In one national survey…would simply take their life some other way: Matthew Miller et al.,
“Belief in the Inevitability of Suicide: Results from a National Survey,” Suicide and Life-
Threatening Behavior 36, no. 1 (2006).
Weisburd spent a year walking: David Weisburd et al., “Challenges to Supervision in Community
Policing: Observations on a Pilot Project,” American Journal of Police 7 (1988): 29–50.
Sherman had been thinking along these lines as well: Larry Sherman et al., Evidence-Based
Crime Prevention (London: Routledge, 2002). (Both Sherman and Weisburd are enormously
prolific. I’ve included a small sample of their work here; if it interests you, there’s much more to
read!)
“We chose Minneapolis”: L. W. Sherman et al., “Hot spots of predatory crime: Routine activities
and the criminology of place,” Criminology (1989): 27–56.
Half the crime in the city [of Boston]: Glenn Pierce et al., “The character of police work: strategic
and tactical implications,” Center for Applied Social Research Northeastern University, November
1988. Although the study authors weren’t aware that their data supported the Law of Crime
Concentration, Weisburd put the pieces together when he looked at their conclusions.