Incidence of Crimes and Effectiveness of Interventions in the National Capital Region: Evidence from Panel Data

Year: 2015       Vol.: 64       No.: 2      

Authors: Michael Daniel C. Lucagbo; Lianne S. De La Cruz; Jecca V. Narvasa; Micah Jane A. Paglicawan

Abstract:

Efforts to bring down the incidence of crimes have been intensified by the Philippine National Police (PNP). The index crimes are prioritized among these crimes. These crimes include theft, robbery, carnapping, and motornapping. Interventions to bring down the incidence of crimes have recently been enacted by the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) of the PNP. These interventions include increases in number of police personnel, mobile patrols, beat patrols, and checkpoints. In this study, the effect of each of these interventions is examined in a panel data analysis using weekly data gathered from all of the police stations in NCR. This paper performs a district-level analysis of the crimes and interventions. The negative binomial regression model for panel data is used to quantify the effects of the interventions on the incidence of index crimes. Results show that some (but not all) of these interventions are effective in reducing crime. The results also show differences in the effects of the interventions across for the different districts. Resources should thus be redirected towards these effective strategies. The differences in the effects of the interventions among the different crimes are also studied.

Keywords: index crimes, intervention, panel data, negative binomial regression

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