THE IMPACT OF COMMUNITY POLICING IN 4 HOUSTON NEIGHBORHOODS

This research examined the impact of community-policing programs on ca lls for service, Part 1 crime, total crime, and narcotics cases in fou r Houston neighborhoods. The methodology used time-series analysis and examined lagged and dynamic effects. The analysis produced mired resu lts, indicating that the community-policing programs had no significan t impact on neighborhood crime. Police departments need to continue ri gorous assessment of their efforts to accumulate knowledge about which community-policing practices are effective and which ones are not.