Crime hot spots are areas where crime reports, calls for police service, or other measures of crime are especially common. Police in departments with a good analytic capability routinely identify hot spots and launch special tactics to reduce crime in these areas. What kinds of validity threats should researchers be especially attentive to in studying the effects of police interventions on hot spots? Write a short essay (minimum 200 words) addressing the question above. Please be sure to use/cite Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 of the textbook Maxfield, M. and E. Babbie (2011). Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology (7th edition)
Do not use any other resources other than Chapter 7&8 of the text book named above
