Reconfiguring Police Reporting Districts in the City of Buffalo

摘要: This paper describes a study that was undertaken to reconfigure the police reporting districts used by Buffalo Police Department in city of Buffalo, New York. We begin relating current configuration these and resulting problems which necessitated reconfiguration turn, motivated this study. is followed description solution methodologies were proposed. The first approach proposed an optimization based one attempted model as multi-objective Set Partitioning problem. After preliminary study, abandoned because unsatisfactory performance. A second, more practical considered. relied on using Census Block Groups defined Bureau US Commerce. With some minor adjustments, second successfully addressed unique needs problem Department. Therefore, plan methodology proposing districts.