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  • 8 - Do Police–Community MeetingsWork? Experimental Evidence from Medellín, Colombia

  • from Part II - The Effects of Community Policing
  • Edited by Graeme Blair, University of California, Los Angeles, Fotini Christia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jeremy M. Weinstein, Harvard University, Massachusetts
  • Book:
    Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing
    Published online:
    09 December 2024
    Print publication:
    05 December 2024, pp 226-256

  • Summary

    Between the early 1990s and the mid-2010s, citizen security in Medellín dramatically improved and police violence declined. But residents’ trust in police stagnated. We evaluate a police-led effort to build trust through town-hall-style police–community meetings. In 174 treated neighborhoods – but not in 173 control neighborhoods – the police held more than 500 such meetings over a period of nine months. We find that the meetings induced small positive changes in perceptions of the police, though they did not alter trust in police per se – or crime reporting behavior, much less crime itself. We interpret these findings as evidence that voluntary informal contact between residents and police officers is a weak but not irrelevant policy for reshaping police–community relations.