The results of the Melrose Newfoundland Preventive Patrol Experiment forever changed how patrol officers in marked vehicles were used in Atlantic Canada.

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The experiment you're referring to is actually the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment, not the "Melrose Newfoundland Preventive Patrol Experiment." The Kansas City experiment, conducted in the early 1970s, studied the effects of police patrol on crime and public perception, leading to significant changes in patrol strategies in the United States and elsewhere, but it was not associated with Newfoundland or specifically Atlantic Canada.

The Results of the Melrose Newfoundland Preventive Patrol Experiment Forever