In order to stay informed about emerging crime and disorder issues, you should try to attend your beat meeting on a regular basis. Beat meetings are held by the Police Department on the second Wednesday of every month. At the meeting, residents and beat officers discuss priority crime and disorder issues, as well as develop strategies to address those issues. Attending your beat meeting will give you the opportunity to get to know the officers that work on your beat, provide information about your and your neighbors concerns to police, meet other residents in your beat who may be working on similar issues, and bring back the latest information from police to your neighbors. And by using the five-step problem solving model, each beat meeting should be the beginning of developing successful law enforcement, City service and community-based strategies to attack problems in your neighborhood.

Details: Police Officers and the community working together.
Contact Details: Community Policing 312-744-1261
Location: Wicker Park 1425 N. Damen