George Mohler
Biographic Data
| ID | 4437758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Mohler |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohler |
| SIGNATURE | MOHLER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4293-5106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The relative and joint effects of gunshot detection technology and video surveillance cameras on case clearance in Chicago
Research Summary Closed‐circuit television (CCTV) video surveillance cameras and gunshot detection technology (GDT) have been widely adopted by police departments in recent years. Most evaluation research on CCTV and GDT has tested the technologies’ effect on crime prevention rather than case clearance rates. The current study contributes to the literature through a matched quasi‐experiment of the relative and joint effect of GDT and CCTV on fata…
Calling the police as an interdependent security game
Calling to report crime represents public cooperation with the police. When rational individuals are predicted to report (and when not) is still poorly understood. We study an interdependent security game under threat of a costly event that can only occur once or is perceived as so costly that the threat of the event occurring more than once is (in foresight) perceived as no more costly than the event occurring only once. Our analysis suggests ho…
Space-Time Association between Gunshot Detection Alerts, Calls for Service, and Police Enforcement in Chicago
Measuring Online–Offline Spillover of Gang Violence Using Bivariate Hawkes Processes
The limits of digital liberation
Gunshot detection technology effect on gun violence in Kansas City, Missouri
Research Summary We apply the microsynthetic control method to evaluate the gun violence prevention effect of gunshot detection technology (GDT) in Kansas City, MO. We measure the influence of GDT on process measures (ballistic evidence collection and gun recoveries) and outcome measures (shots fired calls for service, non‐fatal shootings, fatal shootings, and aggravated assaults and robberies committed with a firearm). The GDT system was associa…
Spatiotemporal Analysis Exploring the Effect of Law Enforcement Drug Market Disruptions on Overdose, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2020–2021
Objectives. To test the hypothesis that law enforcement efforts to disrupt local drug markets by seizing opioids or stimulants are associated with increased spatiotemporal clustering of overdose events in the surrounding geographic area. Methods. We performed a retrospective (January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021), population-based cohort study using administrative data from Marion County, Indiana. We compared frequency and characteristics of drug…
Explaining Crime Diversity with Google Street View
Gang‐related crime in Los Angeles remained stable following Covid‐19 social distancing orders
In responding to disruptions to social and economic life on the scale of the present pandemic, both police and civilian organizations need to anticipate continued demand, all while managing potential reductions to workforce. Police are faced with this challenge across a wide array of crime types. Civilian interventionists tasked with responding to gang-related crime need to be prepared for continued peacekeeping and violence interruption activiti…
The Indianapolis harmspot policing experiment
Is the recent surge in violence in American cities due to contagion
Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Drug Overdoses in Indianapolis
Impact of social distancing during Covid-19 pandemic on crime in Los Angeles and Indianapolis
Governments have implemented social distancing measures to address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The measures include instructions that individuals maintain social distance when in public, school closures, limitations on gatherings and business operations, and instructions to remain at home. Social distancing may have an impact on the volume and distribution of crime. Crimes such as residential burglary may decrease as a byproduct of increased g…
Eliminating Malaria in the American South
Until the 1930s, malaria was endemic throughout large swaths of the American South. We used a Poisson mixture model to analyze the decline of malaria at the county level in Alabama (an archetypical Deep South cotton state) during the 1930s. Employing a novel data set, we argue that, contrary to a leading theory, the decline of malaria in the American South was not caused by population movement away from malarial areas or the decline of Southern t…
Self-Exciting Point Process Modeling of Crime
Highly clustered event sequences are observed in certain types of crime data, such as burglary and gang violence, due to crime-specific patterns of criminal behavior. Similar clustering patterns are observed by seismologists, as earthquakes are well known to increase the risk of subsequent earthquakes, or aftershocks, near the location of an initial event. Space–time clustering is modeled in seismology by self-exciting point processes and the foc…
Impact of social distancing during Covid-19 pandemic on crime in Los Angeles and Indianapolis
Governments have implemented social distancing measures to address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The measures include instructions that individuals maintain social distance when in public, school closures, limitations on gatherings and business operations, and instructions to remain at home. Social distancing may have an impact on the volume and distribution of crime. Crimes such as residential burglary may decrease as a byproduct of increased g…
Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Drug Overdoses in Indianapolis
Spatiotemporal Analysis Exploring the Effect of Law Enforcement Drug Market Disruptions on Overdose, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2020–2021
Objectives. To test the hypothesis that law enforcement efforts to disrupt local drug markets by seizing opioids or stimulants are associated with increased spatiotemporal clustering of overdose events in the surrounding geographic area. Methods. We performed a retrospective (January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021), population-based cohort study using administrative data from Marion County, Indiana. We compared frequency and characteristics of drug…
Gang‐related crime in Los Angeles remained stable following Covid‐19 social distancing orders
In responding to disruptions to social and economic life on the scale of the present pandemic, both police and civilian organizations need to anticipate continued demand, all while managing potential reductions to workforce. Police are faced with this challenge across a wide array of crime types. Civilian interventionists tasked with responding to gang-related crime need to be prepared for continued peacekeeping and violence interruption activiti…
Is the recent surge in violence in American cities due to contagion
Eliminating Malaria in the American South
Until the 1930s, malaria was endemic throughout large swaths of the American South. We used a Poisson mixture model to analyze the decline of malaria at the county level in Alabama (an archetypical Deep South cotton state) during the 1930s. Employing a novel data set, we argue that, contrary to a leading theory, the decline of malaria in the American South was not caused by population movement away from malarial areas or the decline of Southern t…
The limits of digital liberation
Gunshot detection technology effect on gun violence in Kansas City, Missouri
Research Summary We apply the microsynthetic control method to evaluate the gun violence prevention effect of gunshot detection technology (GDT) in Kansas City, MO. We measure the influence of GDT on process measures (ballistic evidence collection and gun recoveries) and outcome measures (shots fired calls for service, non‐fatal shootings, fatal shootings, and aggravated assaults and robberies committed with a firearm). The GDT system was associa…
Self-Exciting Point Process Modeling of Crime
Highly clustered event sequences are observed in certain types of crime data, such as burglary and gang violence, due to crime-specific patterns of criminal behavior. Similar clustering patterns are observed by seismologists, as earthquakes are well known to increase the risk of subsequent earthquakes, or aftershocks, near the location of an initial event. Space–time clustering is modeled in seismology by self-exciting point processes and the foc…
Eliminating Malaria in the American South
Until the 1930s, malaria was endemic throughout large swaths of the American South. We used a Poisson mixture model to analyze the decline of malaria at the county level in Alabama (an archetypical Deep South cotton state) during the 1930s. Employing a novel data set, we argue that, contrary to a leading theory, the decline of malaria in the American South was not caused by population movement away from malarial areas or the decline of Southern t…
Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Drug Overdoses in Indianapolis
Impact of social distancing during Covid-19 pandemic on crime in Los Angeles and Indianapolis
Governments have implemented social distancing measures to address the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The measures include instructions that individuals maintain social distance when in public, school closures, limitations on gatherings and business operations, and instructions to remain at home. Social distancing may have an impact on the volume and distribution of crime. Crimes such as residential burglary may decrease as a byproduct of increased g…
Explaining Crime Diversity with Google Street View
Gang‐related crime in Los Angeles remained stable following Covid‐19 social distancing orders
In responding to disruptions to social and economic life on the scale of the present pandemic, both police and civilian organizations need to anticipate continued demand, all while managing potential reductions to workforce. Police are faced with this challenge across a wide array of crime types. Civilian interventionists tasked with responding to gang-related crime need to be prepared for continued peacekeeping and violence interruption activiti…
The Indianapolis harmspot policing experiment
Is the recent surge in violence in American cities due to contagion
Gunshot detection technology effect on gun violence in Kansas City, Missouri
Research Summary We apply the microsynthetic control method to evaluate the gun violence prevention effect of gunshot detection technology (GDT) in Kansas City, MO. We measure the influence of GDT on process measures (ballistic evidence collection and gun recoveries) and outcome measures (shots fired calls for service, non‐fatal shootings, fatal shootings, and aggravated assaults and robberies committed with a firearm). The GDT system was associa…
Spatiotemporal Analysis Exploring the Effect of Law Enforcement Drug Market Disruptions on Overdose, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2020–2021
Objectives. To test the hypothesis that law enforcement efforts to disrupt local drug markets by seizing opioids or stimulants are associated with increased spatiotemporal clustering of overdose events in the surrounding geographic area. Methods. We performed a retrospective (January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021), population-based cohort study using administrative data from Marion County, Indiana. We compared frequency and characteristics of drug…
Space-Time Association between Gunshot Detection Alerts, Calls for Service, and Police Enforcement in Chicago
Measuring Online–Offline Spillover of Gang Violence Using Bivariate Hawkes Processes
The limits of digital liberation
The relative and joint effects of gunshot detection technology and video surveillance cameras on case clearance in Chicago
Research Summary Closed‐circuit television (CCTV) video surveillance cameras and gunshot detection technology (GDT) have been widely adopted by police departments in recent years. Most evaluation research on CCTV and GDT has tested the technologies’ effect on crime prevention rather than case clearance rates. The current study contributes to the literature through a matched quasi‐experiment of the relative and joint effect of GDT and CCTV on fata…
Calling the police as an interdependent security game
Calling to report crime represents public cooperation with the police. When rational individuals are predicted to report (and when not) is still poorly understood. We study an interdependent security game under threat of a costly event that can only occur once or is perceived as so costly that the threat of the event occurring more than once is (in foresight) perceived as no more costly than the event occurring only once. Our analysis suggests ho…
Crime Patterns and Interventions (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Computer security (5 works) · Demography (4 works)