Research & Evaluation of the Chicago Neighborhood Policing Initiative

N3 is the research partner for the Chicago Neighborhood Policing Initiative (CNPI). In January 2019, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) in collaboration with the Policing Project at New York University School of Law launched CNPI,  a pilot initiative designed to change the way CPD polices and to ensure communities have a voice in how they are policed. The initiative’s overarching goal is for CPD and communities to work together to co-produce public safety and equitable policing.

N3’s research and evaluation of CNPI centers on three main research objectives:

1. Document the process by which the initiative unfolds in the target CPD districts;
2. Analyze changes in perceptions of satisfaction, public safety, and community-police engagement of both community residents and police in response to those initiatives; and
3. Conduct a rigorous evaluation of the program’s impact on public safety, crime, police-community engagement, and other performance metrics

A core component of N3’s research design also includes interviews with police officers and residents to better understand their experiences with, and opinions of, CNPI, as well as observations of program activities. N3 is also conducting a quasi-experimental analysis of the initiative’s impact on levels of community trust.

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