The City of San Antonio and the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) are employing a new problem-oriented approach to violence reduction at one of the city’s most violence-prone apartment complexes. After six months, this approach has reduced violent street crime by 50% compared to the year before. Overall, calls for service were down 24%, and violence-related calls by 30%. This problem-oriented, place-based policing (POPBP) approach aims to reduce crime in some of the city’s persistently violent places by building on a foundation of problem-oriented policing and incorporating a multi-disciplinary team of stakeholders from across city government and the identified place. Although this approach had positive findings, understanding its overall impact is still being considered. Family violence offenses and calls increased compared to the previous year, suggesting that more work remains to be done at the site to change patterns of violent behavior within intimate partner and family settings. It’s also…