ABSTRACT
This chapter describes in detail how the assessments were made and examines some of the factors that seem to explain why problem solving was underway in some places. It presents the relationship between policing and community factors, including racial homogeneity and capacity for self-help. The police make up the final part of the problem-solving equation. In the survey, all the beats were in the bottom half on a measure of perceived quality of police service; Two-Turf was at the very bottom, and Norte was just two positions higher. The irony is that the beats were among the most supportive of the police, ranking third and fourth, respectively, just below Property Values and Bungalow Belt. The police serving Bungalow Belt came very close to first-place in the ratings. Political mobilization and downtown connections all seemed to accrue to the same fortunate areas.
