“Positive community interactions” sounds pleasant enough as a policing strategy. Who could deny the benefits of having Chicago police officers serve as messengers of goodwill in the neighborhoods that ...

In the last 30 years, community-oriented policing has been a key innovation in policing. But while this proactive approach boosts citizens’ evaluations of police, evidence is sparse that it reduces ...

Laura S. Washington is a Chicago Tribune contributing columnist and political analyst for ABC-7, Chicago’s ABC-owned station. Before moving to the Tribune, she served as a longtime contributing ...

Community policing stands at a critical crossroads, facing fundamental challenges that will determine whether it evolves into genuine collaborative problem-solving or remains trapped as political ...

Following the worsening security situation in the country, the federal and state government have agreed to explore the idea of decentralizing the policing system by creating state and community ...

Days have turned into weeks, weeks into months, and months into years, but the events of June 5, 2019 remain fresh in Nosipo Msipa’s mind. That was the day Msipa’s 5-year-old daughter was abducted ...

The effort to reform the Chicago Police Department was never supposed to happen quickly, with experts seeing the potential for a nearly decadelong, laborious process for a court to call it complete.

Along with his vow to "fund the police," President Joe Biden assured Americans during his State of the Union speech, "I know what works: Investing in crime prevention and community police officers who ...