Towards a productive relationship between police and community safety leaders in racialized socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods : measuring the impact of formal, partnership-based community crime prevention organizations

Abstract

The goal of this research is to explore the extent to which the implementation of a partnership-based (“co-production of safety”) model in a racialized socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods (SNDs) affects the relationship between community safety leaders (CSLs) and police, with particular emphasis on how it influences the perceptions of and satisfaction with police by local CSLs. The study concludes that the Mulgrave Park Community Mobilization Team (MPCMT) has helped to bridge the gap between police and local CSLs. The MPCMT appears to have helped give the CSLs more authority which include opportunities for them to hold police accountable for their actions. Despite the minimal improvements in the relationship between police and the CSLs, there is no evidence that the MPCMT had any impact on institutional racisms within the HRP.