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Evaluation of Community Policing: Final Report of the Community Survey and Police Department Internal Survey

NCJ Number
137121
Author(s)
N C Daly; P J Morehead
Date Published
1992
Length
41 pages
Annotation
Surveys of the community and police department were conducted to evaluate the impact of implementation of community policing in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Abstract
The results are based on the responses of 1,448 residents and business people and 337 police officers. The community survey provides baseline information on the levels of citizen satisfaction with police service, citizens' fear of crime, and citizens' level of concern for several quality of life problems perceived to exist in their neighborhoods. Similarly, the internal survey of police officers provides baseline data on employees' perceptions of their jobs, their feelings about the implementation and effectiveness of community policing, their ratings of police function, and their level of concern for the same quality of life problems presented to citizens in the community survey. Additionally, the police officers were asked several open-ended questions regarding their specific expectations of the impact community policing would have on their jobs, their personal definitions of community policing, and their recommendations for how the process of implementing community policing could be improved. Data analysis for both surveys include descriptive statistics, frequency distributions, and statistically significant relationships between survey variables and demographic characteristics.