How successful have other people’s Community Policing
and Crime Prevention projects been? How did they measure their
success? These resources explain how other people have evaluated
themselves, and how you can use these tools yourself. Just
click to read!
Community Collaboratives Addressing Youth Gangs(USA)
This report presents interim findings of the Urban Institute's evaluation of the Gang Reduction Program (GRP), a $10 million, multi-year, federal initiative to reduce gang crime in Los Angeles, California; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; North Miami Beach, Florida; and Richmond, Virginia. The evaluation found substantial variation in collaboration levels among partners in each site, but each site achieved significant implementation successes. The effects of GRP in each site were mixed, and only one site, Los Angeles, showed a significant reduction in crime levels. By late 2007, however, three sites had undertaken significant steps towards sustaining GRP beyond the federal funding period. Learn more here. [Source: Urban Institute]
Evaluating Police & Community Crime Prevention
Programs (Canada)
This toolkit
from the National Crime Prevention Strategy is designed to help people involved in Community Policing
and Crime Prevention evaluate the effectiveness of their programs.
It explains why it is important to evaluate, the factors that
must be measured, how to measure them, and how to report them.
Appendices provide examples of evaluation forms and reports.
Taking Stock - Community Policing in Chicago
(USA)
This research
report undertaken at Northwestern University evaluated
the Chicago
Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS), which was founded
in 1993. The report concludes that CAPS has been “moderately
successful” at community involvement. Among other findings,
Chicago’s crime did decrease throughout the 1990’s,
and there is some improvement in policecommunity relations.
This report will help communities to evaluate their community
policing programs.
Are We Safe? (USA)
This
survey, conducted in 2001 by the National Crime Prevention Council, evaluated how safe Americans
were feeling which naturally has a profound effect on crime
prevention efforts. A community that feels safe is also likely
to be safe. The survey reveals that people know that being
engaged in their communities makes them all safer, but they
don’t know how to get involved. Community Policing and
Crime Prevention can be a way to educate them.
Have we missed something? Know a great resource
we should include here? Email us at tamarack@tamarackcommunity.ca.
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