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Leadership From Bottom To Top: Community Policing in Chicago

Wesley G. Skogan Institute for Policy Research/Political Science Northwestern University. Leadership From Bottom To Top: Community Policing in Chicago. Establish a Turf Orientation. Beat teams Beat cars Beat sergeants 911 dispatch rules Monitor effectiveness 3 million dispatches/year!

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Leadership From Bottom To Top: Community Policing in Chicago

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  1. Wesley G. Skogan Institute for Policy Research/Political Science Northwestern University Leadership From Bottom To Top:Community Policing in Chicago

  2. Establish a Turf Orientation Beat teams Beat cars Beat sergeants 911 dispatch rules Monitor effectiveness 3 million dispatches/year! NOT special units Fixed shifts “Long term” assignment

  3. Develop Vehicles for Public Involvement Beat meetings meet monthly in a local venue regular time and place information resources attended by officers working the beat training in a model agenda We conducted observational studies to gauge their effectiveness

  4. Trends in Beat Meeting Attendance

  5. Demographic Representation

  6. Interest Representation

  7. Officer and Participant Ratingsof Neighborhood Problems

  8. Foster Interagency Cooperation Why? Chicago buys ‘broken windows’ Mayor’s clean and green agenda Otherwise the public won’t show up Strategies link meetings to services via service request forms include officers’ service forms in accountability review independent monitoring of delivery effectiveness use CIO for cross-agency task force operations tackle the agency silo problem

  9. CAPS Service Request Form

  10. Service Delivery Model

  11. Challenges Can community policing survive ‘CompStat” ? what’s measured is what matters inexorable pressure toward traditional and crime-fighting measures and away from fixing the windows Can it survive an end to the The Great Crime Drop of 1991-2006 ? political and media pressure on organization and resource allocation Can it survive mayoral succession? It has survived three chiefs of police firmly rooted in the politics and life in the city’s neighborhoods Can Chicago figure out what to do about its new immigrants?

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