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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.

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• Preface(p. vii)
• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• 1 Policing at Contury's End(p. 3)
• 2 Police and Politics in Chicago(p. 20)
• 3 Crafting a Program(p. 38)
• 4 Bringing Officers on Board(p. 70)
• 5 Citizen Involvement(p. 110)
• 6 The Program in Action(p. 161)
• 7 The Impact of Caps on Neighborhood Life(p. 194)
• 8 Reinventing Policing, Chicago Style(p. 236)
• References(p. 247)
• Index(p. 255)

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The focus of this book is on the lessons learned from Chicago's unique style of community policing. Faced with political, racial, and fiscal problems, Chicago adopted a new approach to policing and tested it in five parts of the city. As with other similar projects, community policing in Chicago was based on several general principles. Police work was changed by decentralizing and flattening the departments' organizational structure, by implementing problem-solving and prevention-oriented strategies, and by emphasizing the role of the public in helping to set police priorities. The most important contribution of the book is its documentation of the strengths and challenges of Chicago's community policing program. From the beginning, the program had the support of the mayor, the political structure of the city, and the police commissioner. They provided leadership, worked on a strategic plan, and mobilized needed resources. Crucial for success of the program, however, was the existence of multiple channels of communication that gave residents opportunity to influence police priorities. When such channels were absent, as was the case with Hispanic neighborhoods, community police failed to contribute significant improvements to the neighborhood's quality of life. Upper-division undergraduates and above. G. Rabrenovic; Northeastern University

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Wesley G. Skogan is at Northwestern University. Susan M. Hartnett is at Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University.