RISK ASSESSMENT CATEGORY 2
Category 2: Small Scale on existing developments
SafeGrowth practitioners, designers, and architects are often called upon to assess the potential impact of crime on a relatively small-scale project. New walkways, redesigned building foyers, and ATM machine placements are a few examples.
This level of SafeGrowth is typically fairly straightforward, however there is often a tendency for the practitioner to walk onto the site and begin making recommendations without conducting any analysis whatsoever. Many practitioners bring a simple CPTED checklist that they fill out on site. That is insufficient. That approach cannot possibly capture the information needed for formulate sensible recommendations. At minimum there are a series of analytical steps and data that must precede any recommendations.
Category 2 methods include:
This level of SafeGrowth is typically fairly straightforward, however there is often a tendency for the practitioner to walk onto the site and begin making recommendations without conducting any analysis whatsoever. Many practitioners bring a simple CPTED checklist that they fill out on site. That is insufficient. That approach cannot possibly capture the information needed for formulate sensible recommendations. At minimum there are a series of analytical steps and data that must precede any recommendations.
Category 2 methods include:
- Plan Review: Review proposed design plans or the concept drawings if the project is in conceptual stages, such as landscaping plans
- Site Visits: Conduct site visits (both daytime and nighttime) to examine the area for lighting patterns, mobility patterns of site users, entrapment areas, adjacent land uses that might cause conflicts, territoriality, access control, and natural surveillance
- Demographics: Collect local demographic data to identify population characteristics that impact crime. Data should be gathered on the gender, socio economic status, age, population density, ethnicity, mobility, and other relevant information on the potential users, victims, and predators of an environment.
- Crime Stats: Examine the existing crime data to look at the types of crime (property crime, crimes to person, drug related) and sort by date, location, and time.
- Site Interviews: Interview local residents and employees to determine the travel routines, how the site is typically used, and whether the design fits the actual designated use. Interview the designers and property owners to determine the intended use, and future plans, for the site.