Meeting the Needs of Racine Citizens: Evaluation of a Community Policing Program

摘要

This study selected a control community that was believed to be similar to the community-policed areas except for the fact that community policing was not an institutionalized part of neighborhood life. What we found was a control area that is dissimilar to the community policed areas in terms of racial composition and absolute incidence of crime. Yet, a comparison between control and experimental areas sheds light on interpreting our findings of community policing. What is significant is that the control neighborhood seems to have more people than in the experimental areas who share similar values with their neighbors and would call police under threatening conditions. In addition, more people in the control area reported that they knew of and attended community meetings. Thus, the control area seems to have greater solidarity and participation among its citizens than the community policed area.