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Chicago Community Policing
The 1995 Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy that created structured beat meetings in which residents and officers deliberated together about neighborhood safety — Fung's second foundational case for the empirical superiority of participatory governance.
The Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy, initiated in 1995, created beat meetings in which residents and police officers deliberated together about neighborhood safety. Residents brought local knowledge — which corners were dangerous at which hours, which buildings harbored persistent problems, which community dynamics drove which patterns of disorder. Officers brought professional expertise — tactical options, legal constraints, resource availability. The combination produced plans that neither party could have developed alone, and the plans produced measurable reductions in crime in participating neighborhoods. The case is Fung's second canonical demonstration of the complementarity of expert and practical knowledge.
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The beat meetings were designed to satisfy all three conditions of empowered participatory governance. Accessibility was ensured by neighborhood location, regular scheduling, and formats that did not require law enforcement expertise. Deliberation was structured around specific problems, with information provided by both residents and officers, and with time allocated for exploration rather than mere exchange. Consequence was ensured by implementation of
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