Can community policing increase residents’ informal social control? Testing the impact of the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy

Lombardo, Robert M.; Donner, Christopher M.

doi:10.1080/15614263.2017.1405265

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“…community engagement and police presence) and collective efficacy. Furthermore, two of the three field experiments testing the impact of a community policing intervention found significant and positive effects on collective efficacy (Kochel and Weisburd, 2019;Lombardo and Donner, 2018). There is a relative scarcity of policing field experiments that use collective efficacy as an outcome measure, compared with other outcomes, such as crime, perceived disorder, fear of crime, citizen satisfaction and legitimacy of police (Braga et al, 2019;Gill et al, 2014;Hinkle et al, 2020;Mazerolle, 2013).…”

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“…In addition to these measures, five field experiments tested the effect of a policing intervention on collective efficacy. Of the policing interventions tested, three were of some form of community policing intervention (Kochel and Weisburd, 2019;Lombardo and Donner, 2018;Tuffin et al, 2006), one was of an intervention specifically designed to increase collective action and collective efficacy (Weisburd et al, 2020), and one was of a broken windows style intervention (Weisburd et al, 2011).…”

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Policing and collective efficacy: A rapid evidence assessment

Yesberg¹,

Bradford²

2021

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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Collective efficacy is a neighbourhood social process that has important benefits for crime prevention. Policing is thought to be one antecedent to collective efficacy, but the mechanisms by which police activity and officer behaviour are thought to foster collective efficacy are not well understood. This article presents findings from a rapid evidence assessment conducted to take stock of the empirical research on policing and collective efficacy. Thirty-nine studies were identified and examined. Overall, trust in police was the aspect of policing most consistently associated with collective efficacy. There was also some evidence that community policing activities, such as visibility and community engagement, predicted collective efficacy. Police legitimacy, on the other hand, was relatively unrelated to collective efficacy: a finding which suggests perceptions of police linked to the ‘action’ of individual officers may be more enabling of collective efficacy than perceptions of the policing institution as a whole. Implications and directions for future research are discussed.

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Policing and collective efficacy: A rapid evidence assessment

Yesberg¹,

Bradford²

2021

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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“…Despite how promising this sounds, it is now widely recognized that community policing has been generally unsuccessful. Initially positive effects found by Lombardo and Donner (2018) were accounted for primarily by the level of community disorganization and the existing level of satisfaction of community members with the police. Gill, Weisburd, Telep, Vitter, and Bennett (2014) found that community policing increased citizen satisfaction and ratings of disorder but did not reduce crime or fear of crime.…”

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Editorial: Rendezvous With Truth and Discovery

Mattaini

Rehfeldt

2020

Behav. Soc. Iss.

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The police violence pandemic directed toward members of racialized populations in the United States, particularly but not exclusively African American men (African American women and indigenous groups face similar injustices), has produced widespread protests and some immediate changes across the United States and around the world. The extent to which the Black Lives Matter movement will be sustained as was the civil rights movement in the 1960s is not yet known, but broad participation among racial, economic, and age groups is encouraging. There are opportunities for all to participate in the movement simply as members of society; we argue here, however, that behavior scientists and practitioners have unique potential, and an ethical obligation, to contribute to achieving meaningful change while recognizing that we offer only part of what is necessary for social advancement. In 1967, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968), gave a distinguished address to the American Psychological Association titled "The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement." He noted that "for social scientists, the opportunity to serve in a life-giving purpose is a humanist challenge of rare distinction. Negroes too are eager for a rendezvous with truth and discovery." He then suggested areas where help would be welcomed. The need is clearly still great, but behavior science has yet to prioritize this work. Perhaps this is the moment. The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science recently released a statement reading, in part, We, the Board of ACBS, are writing this statement to unequivocally oppose structural, cultural, and individual racism, racially motivated violence, hate speech and all forms of prejudice and oppression in evidence throughout the world. We invite our community of researchers, therapists, and helpers to look hard at the many ways in which racism manifests in the world at large. We ask that our scientific community bring to bear the significant strength of contextual behavioral science in shining a light and exploring solutions to discrimination and Behavior and Social Issues

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“…In a recent study, researchers analyzed the impact of bicycle and motorized patrols in Canada, concluding that bicycle patrols are more proactive in the context of community-oriented policing (Sytsma and Piza, 2018). In another study, researchers from the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Loyola University Chicago assessed the community policing effect on informal social control in Chicago neighborhoods (Lombardo and Donner, 2018; Xu et al, 2005).…”

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Operational research applied in the field of public security

Basílio

Pereira

2020

JM2

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Purpose Because that the crime in a wide way impacts the life of the people in the big metropolis, researchers have treated the question from several angles. The purpose of the paper, under the umbrella of operational research, is to develop a model of the ordering of police strategies, in the fight against crime in general, according to a certain criminal demand. Design/methodology/approach For the construction of the impact matrix of the strategies under the reduction of crime rates, considering a portfolio of crimes, a questionnaire applied to specialists was used. In a second moment, defined the criteria and strategies to be ordered, the multicriteria ELECTRE IV method was used, which with the help of the J-Electre software emulated the systematized data in the impact matrix and produced the final ordering of the most efficient strategies, in the fight against crime, in the perception of decision-makers. Findings As a result, the research revealed that policing strategies directed at solving specific crimes are the most effective in the perception of decision-makers after the emulation of data with the ELECTRE IV method. Research limitations/implications As research implications, it can be inferred that the use of multicriteria methods in the modeling of problems in the area of public security can contribute to rationalization of the use of the means available in the fight against crime in large cities. The research showed that it is possible to use customized policing strategies to a certain reality. Practical implications The method presented in this research is directly related to the major strategies: problem-oriented policing and hot spot policing. This method allows public safety managers to consider the possibility of combining different law enforcement strategies in each context. In this sense, the use of the multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) (ELECTRE IV) method allows the evaluation of a large set of alternatives according to a set of established criteria, speeding up the process and reducing subjectivity, allowing the manager to analyze several scenarios with greater clarity and impartiality and choosing an alternative that best solves the proposed problem. The expected result is the rationalization of the available means applied in the search for the reduction of crime rates. Social implications The customization of policing strategies, according to criminal demands, implies the efficient way to reduce criminal charges. Reducing criminal rates enables the development of the local economy, tourism and the quality of life of people by exercising their freedom to the full. Originality/value The originality lies in filling a gap in the literature with the elaboration of the impact matrix of policing strategies in reducing criminal indices, and in their associated use in ordering strategies through a multicriteria method.

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Can community policing increase residents’ informal social control? Testing the impact of the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy

Cited by 17 publications

References 50 publications

Policing and collective efficacy: A rapid evidence assessment

Policing and collective efficacy: A rapid evidence assessment

Editorial: Rendezvous With Truth and Discovery

Operational research applied in the field of public security

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