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Quasi-Experimental Research on Community Policing
This chapter describes an evaluation of community policing in Chicago. After a brief planning period the
program began in five (of 25) test police districts in April 1993. By March 1995, important elements of the
initiative were in place throughout the city. A team of academic researchers headquartered at
Northwestern University became involved in evaluating this effort during its planning phase. Over the
years more than 75 faculty, students and researchers worked on the evaluation. Regular reports and
three books resulted from the project. The first analyzes the political origins of the program, its planning
and implementation, how the city staffed and paid for it, and the impact of community policing in the five
test districts where it was first set in motion. The second assesses the program's problem-solving
component. It presents a detailed, on-the-ground description of police and community problem solving
efforts in 15 selected areas of the city. The final book describes the development of community policing
in Chicago over a 12-year span, and examines trends in crime, fear and satisfaction with policing in the
city's diverse neighborhoods. This chapter describes the evaluation and some of what we found. Early
sections introduce the evaluation and the program, and review the kinds of data we gathered to assess
its major components. There is a discussion of general issues that drove the design and execution of
the project. A final section places the findings for Chicago in larger context, comparing them with the
results of evaluations of other community policing initiatives.
This chapter describes an evaluation of community policing in Chicago. After a brief planning period the
program began in five (of 25) test police districts in April 1993. By March 1995, important elements of the
initiative were in place throughout the city. A team of academic researchers headquartered at
Northwestern University became involved in evaluating this effort during its planning phase. Over the
years more than 75 faculty, students and researchers worked on the evaluation. Regular reports and
three books resulted from the project. The first analyzes the political origins of the program, its planning
and implementation, how the city staffed and paid for it, and the impact of community policing in the five
test districts where it was first set in motion. The second assesses the program's problem-solving
component. It presents a detailed, on-the-ground description of police and community problem solving
efforts in 15 selected areas of the city. The final book describes the development of community policing
in Chicago over a 12-year span, and examines trends in crime, fear and satisfaction with policing in the
city's diverse neighborhoods. This chapter describes the evaluation and some of what we found. Early
sections introduce the evaluation and the program, and review the kinds of data we gathered to assess
its major components. There is a discussion of general issues that drove the design and execution of
the project. A final section places the findings for Chicago in larger context, comparing them with the
results of evaluations of other community policing initiatives.
Chicago Community Policing (CAPS) Abstracts