Other Findings on the Effects of the Patrol System

Based on the data and the analysis, it became evident that there is a set of crimes that are responsive to patrol efforts and similarly, a set of crimes that remain impervious to patrol efforts in preventing crime. The more responsive crimes include theft, mischief grave threats, and alarms and scandals. The less responsive crimes are light threats and physical injury. A rough but intuitive conjecture can somehow explain this varying responsiveness of crimes to patrol efforts: the more distant from the road, the more distant from deterrence. This distance is not only spatial but also social. A bedroom where a husband is about to smash his woman’s face may only be a meter away from a sidewalk where a lad is trying to steal a water meter. But since he is enclosed within the walls of a marital bedroom, he is so much distant from patrol deterrence compared to the lad. The observation on responsiveness to crime prevention in the Philippine setting and the issue of “distance from deterrence” may be of interest to other researchers. Perhaps, these may even be the basis of hypothesis of future research endeavors.