However, these are not focused efforts on reducing crime, but merely reactive strategies. The main focus should be on crime prevention. Hot spots policing covers a range of police responses that all share in common a focus of resources on the locations where crime is highly concentrated (“Hot Spots,” 2013). Identifying the hot spots and placing more officers in these locations is an improvement over just placing more officers across the community, but these officers need to take action in these hot spots. Mere presence alone may be a deterrent at the moment, but it is what the police do at these hot spots that is the most important. Directed patrols, proactive arrests, and problem solving at high crime “hot spots” has shown substantial evidence of crime prevention (Sherman,