In the early 1990s, Chicago, the nation's third largest city, instituted the nation's largest community policing
initiative. Wesley G. Skogan here provides the first comprehensive evaluation of that citywide program, examining
its impact on crime, neighborhood residents, and the police. Based on the results of a thirteen-year study, including
interviews, citywide surveys, and sophisticated statistical analyses, Police and Community in Chicago reveals a
city divided among African-Americans, Whites, and Latinos. Each faced distinctive problems when community policing
came to Chicago in 1993, and during the next decade the three communities took different routes. There were tremendous
improvements in the citys predominately African-American districts, where crime and fear dropped the most. The
city's largely white neighborhoods were already solidly behind the police, yet they too registered significant
gains. Under pressure from immigration, the Latino population cleaved in two with predominately Spanish-speaking
areas falling behind on multiple measures of crime, disorder and neighborhood decay. Immigration will only continue
to grow both in Chicago and around the world. Skogan thus concludes his pathbreaking work with a challenge for
the future: more effective ways of responding to the problems facing the city's newest immigrants must now be found.