The Comprehensive Field Guide to Proactive Crime Prevention: Strategies, Technology, Partnerships, and Playbooks For Smarter Policing and Safer Communities Paperback – March 10, 2026

Modern policing can’t rely on reaction alone. If we want safer communities, fewer repeat calls, and better outcomes, we have to prevent harm before it escalates.The Comprehensive Field Guide to Proactive Crime Prevention is a practical, experience-informed roadmap for law enforcement leaders, supervisors, analysts, and frontline officers—and the partners who support public safety—who want realistic ways to deter crime, disrupt patterns, and reduce repeat victimization. Built on evidence-based and problem-oriented policing, this guide translates proven concepts into clear steps you can apply in the real world—without needing a research degree or extra time you don’t have.Inside you’ll find:A prevention-first operating model grounded in EBP, POP, and the SARA process.Practical guidance on data, analysis, and technology (including GIS, RTM, networks, and modern tools).Core proactive strategies—people-based, place-based, community/trust-based, and leadership-driven.28 practical, realistic crime-type playbooks covering a wide range of offenses—each designed to help readers proactively identify risk, focus resources, integrate enforcement and prevention, and reduce repeat harm.Key partnership guidance to support sustainable prevention, including collaboration with community stakeholders, schools/campuses, local government, code enforcement, public works, behavioral health providers, victim services, service organizations, prosecutors, probation/parole, and other allied partners.A closing chapter on sustaining success—so implementation doesn’t fade after the initial push.Curated resources to help provide guidance beyond the book. This isn’t theory. It’s a field guide for building a proactive culture—one problem, one place, and one repeat harm pattern at a time. Read more