Officer-Initiated Community Policing Strategy
Axios
Policing
Problems addressed
Crime and delinquency (multiple types)
Robberies
Thefts
Effectiveness

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Effective

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Life periods served
People of all ages
Where the program was applied
Community (streets or community centers)
Country of application
United States
Description

This is a community policing initiative strategy aimed at reducing crime and increasing community interactions.
The key elements of the initiative are: accountability, collaboration, decentralization, and problem-solving. Police officers were responsible for crimes in their assigned areas and were evaluated on their problem-solving skills.
They worked with local community representatives to identify recurring problems in the area and implement relevant solutions.

Impact evaluations

An impact evaluation showed that the intervention resulted in a 43% drop in crime and a 22% drop in property crime at the treatment site, while there was no change in the comparison areas. Drug-related crime decreased at both the treatment and the comparison sites, suggesting that this decline was not associated with the community policing intervention [1].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Connell, N. M., Miggans, K. & McGloin, J. M. (2008). Can a Community Policing Initiative Reduce Serious Crime? Police Quarterly, 11(2), 127–150. https://doi.org/10.1177/1098611107306276

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