Englewood Community Policing

In the Englewood Police District (7th), which includes Englewood and West Englewood, resident attendance at beat community meetings trailed the citywide average last year. Fewer than 17 residents attended the average meeting from March 1998 through March 1999. About 26 people attend each beat meeting citywide, according to Wesley G. Skogan of the Chicago Community Policing Evaluation Consortium.

One reason Englewood residents say they don't attend is because they rarely see the same police officers at the meetings. Beat community meeting logs show few officers and sergeants attended more than one meeting each during this period. In only six of the district's 15 beats did the same sergeants attend at least half the meetings.