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Synopsis
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.
Booknews
With the support of the Clinton administration, the highly visible cop of yesteryear is back walking the local streets (and representing its ethnic diversity)<-->as the cover illustrates. The contemporary wave of community policing requires reinventing of police departments and citizen involvement. As a case in point, Skogan and Hartnett (Northwestern U.) evaluate the transitional experience of a major American city with the largest community policing program in the nation. They address such issues as why Chicago adopted this policy, the politics and logistics involved in its planning and implementation, the commitment required, why such experiments have failed elsewhere, and its impact. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.