POP Center Problems  Retaliatory Violent Disputes Appendix B

Appendix B: Level 2 Risk Assessment Tool  

• The tally of the numerical scores on this checklist helps police managers efficiently prioritize investigative resources by: a) providing them a short-hand violence-risk summary, b) rank ordering by risk level the many ongoing disputes in the community, c) differentiating disputes that are well understood by police from those that are not (and thereby alerting crime analysts and patrol officers to gather more intelligence about these disputes), and d) providing an objective basis for committing extra resources to intervening in the most dangerous disputes.