| this presentation builds upon our four-year effort at evaluating a community policing initiative throughout Philadelphia's public housing developments. The purpose of this initiative was to implement a series of problem-solving tactics whereby citizens and community policing officers would work in tandem to identify and solve problems in Philadelphia public housing. In this paper, we examine several aspects of this process as well as perceptual data from citizens residing in the developments. In addition, comparable data are analyzed for samples in areas directly contiguous to the public housing developments. Implications for community policing in geneeral and the policing of public housing particular are addressed. |
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