Changes in Police-Community Relations Post Ferguson

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Abstract: The article provides a summary overview of the results from the author’s December 2015 survey of Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police members. The survey both gauged the extent of change in police-community relations post Ferguson and identified key strategies implemented by Illinois police agencies since August 2014 to strengthen police-community relations locally. Among the key findings from the study, building safer and stronger communities is fundamentally an effort built upon trust and through active partnerships between individual local police departments and the communities they serve.

The survey data provides strong evidence that those respondents who reported higher levels of direct outreach efforts with the community were far more confident about the strength of their local police-community relationships going forward. As such, maintaining sustained community outreach is the core recommendation that can be drawn from the analysis of the survey data. This article was published in Command Magazine by the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police in September 2016.

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