Community policing, Chicago style
By: Wesley G. Skogan, Susan M. Hartnett.
Contributors: Hartnett, Susan M.
Series: Studies in crime and public policy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.). -- Police Dept; Community policing -- Illinois -- Chicago; Crime prevention -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Citizen participation; Police administration -- Illinois -- Chicago
Description: Police departments across the country are busily "reinventing" themselves, adopting a new style known as "community policing". This approach to policing involves organizational decentralization, new channels of communication with the public, a commitment to responding to what the community thinks their priorities ought to be, and the adoption of a broad problem-solving approach to neighborhood issues. Police departments that succeed in adopting this new stance have an entirely different relationship to the public that they serve. Chicago made the transition, embarking on what is now the nation's largest and most impressive community policing program. This book, the first to examine such a project, looks in depth at all aspects of the program--why it was adopted, how it was adopted, and how well it has worked. --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-253) and index.