5. PROGRAM EVALUATION (continued)

5.1.2 Proximity of Driver Address to Neighborhood

Included on the police stop form was a question asking how close the driver's address was to the neighborhood in which the driver was stopped. The intent here was to determine how many of the speeders lived in (or very near) the neighborhood in which they were stopped. The police officer could check one of three categories: “in the neighborhood,” “near the neighborhood” (within one mile) or “outside the neighborhood” (more than one mile). The results for Peoria are given in Table 4 and those for Phoenix are given in Table 5.

Table 4 shows that 37.9 percent of the drivers who were stopped in Peoria lived in the neighborhood in which they were stopped, and an additional 18.1 percent lived within a mile of that neighborhood. Thus, over half (56.0%) of the drivers stopped in Peoria lived in or within a mile of the neighborhood in which they were stopped. Forty-four percent of the drivers lived more than one mile from the neighborhood in which they were stopped.

With regard to individual Peoria neighborhoods, 95th Avenue had the largest number of stops for residents residing in the neighborhood (52.3%). In fact, 60.8 percent of the drivers stopped in the 95th Avenue neighborhood lived in or within one mile of the neighborhood in which they were stopped. Comparable data for the Bell Park and Desert Harbor neighborhoods were 52.7 percent and 51.5 percent, respectively, but these neighborhoods had lower proportions of in-neighborhood violators and higher percentages of near-neighborhood speeders.

Table 4. Proximity of Driver Address to Neighborhood ( Peoria )

 
Table 5 shows that 51.4 percent of the drivers stopped in Phoenix lived in the neighborhood in which they were stopped, and an additional 12.0 percent lived within one mile of the neighborhood. Thus 63.4 percent of the stopped drivers lived in or within one mile of the neighborhood in which they were stopped. Only about a third of the drivers (36.6%) lived outside the neighborhood. With regard to individual neighborhoods, the Moon Valley/Coral Gables neighborhood (57.4%) had the largest percentage of drivers who lived in the neighborhood followed by Sweetwater (46.5%) and Clarendon (34.5%). This is not surprising since Moon Valley was the largest of the studied neighborhoods, and Clarendon was the smallest. For the Moon Valley neighborhood, 67.1 percent of the drivers lived in or within one mile of the neighborhood in which they were stopped. These data for the Clarendon and Sweetwater neighborhoods were 60 percent and 59.2 percent, respectively.