Bureau of Justice Assistance - Center for Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement

Bibliography

Examples of Law Enforcement Programs

Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority, prepared by the Chicago Community Policing Evaluation Consortium, Community Policing in Chicago, Year Two, 1995. (Illinois)
This study captured community attitudes toward crime problems and police response by surveys before and after the implementation of community policing programs. Changes in the attitudes in five communities in which community policing was implemented were compared to changes found in matched comparison communities.

Statistical Analysis Center, Executive Office of Public Safety, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elderly Protection Project: Final Project Report, 1995. (Massachusetts)
This evaluation includes an interrupted time series analysis of the impact of a police training project on the number of elder abuse cases reported to protective service agencies over time.

State of Delaware, SAC, Evaluation of the Wilmington Weed & Seed Program, January to December, 1995, 1997. (Delaware)
This evaluation analyzed the number of drug related calls for service by quarter for five years prior and four years after the implementation of the Weed and Seed Program.

State of Delaware, SAC, Eastside Substance Abuse Awareness Program Evaluation, 1994. (Delaware)
This study tracked monthly drug related call-ins in three reporting areas - 1) the program area, 2) a Asimilar@ area without a community policing program, and 3) two combined reporting areas with alternate community policing programs.

The Chicago Community Policing Evaluation Consortium, Community Policing in Chicago, Year Three, 1996. (Illinois)
As part of an on-going evaluation effort, this evaluation report addresses the views of city residents through a survey on related issues and program recognition, examines the dynamics of community meeting by identifying participants and issues raised, details the operation of citizen-police training programs, examines the extent to which the program has been implemented city-wide, and details new program components.

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