Public Involvement : Community Policing in Chicago

By Samuels, Julie E.

Book Id: WPLBN0000662462
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Public Involvement : Community Policing in Chicago
Author:	Samuels, Julie E.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Law., Law & economy, Litigation and arbitration
Collections:	Law Library Collection
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Publisher:	Department of Justice


Citation APA MLA Chicago E. Samuel, B. J. (n.d.). Public Involvement : Community Policing in Chicago. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Legal Reference Publication

Excerpt
Summary: An important feature of many community policing initiatives is that they provide new avenues for citizen involvement in partnerships with police. Residents may be called upon to help identify and prioritize neighborhood problems for action, to become involved in problem-solving efforts, and to help shape police policies and operations. The commitment to responsiveness and information sharing that many police agencies make as they adopt community policing ideally must be matched on the civilian side with an enthusiastically involved representative segment of a concerned public. However, as with police officers, the extent to which neighborhood residents actively embrace community policing is highly variable. Assumptions about their initial enthusiasm for community policing can be made too casually. Police and residents may have a history of not cooperating, and in many poor neighborhoods the past is strewn with broken promises and programs that eventually evaporated.

Table of Contents
Contents Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Community meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Study components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Public Awareness of Community Policing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Assessing awareness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Tracking sources of awareness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Program marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Beat Meeting Participation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Meeting publicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Role of attendance frequency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Activist characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Key attendance factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Beat meeting effectiveness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Attendance Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Patterns of Participation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Attendance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Significance of findings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Beat Meetings in Practice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 The ideal beat meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Beat meeting observations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Model-meeting index: What contributes to better meetings? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26