ABSTRACT
For an initiative with as many components and agendas as the Midtown Community Court, there is no single answer to the question: Did it work? There are clear answers to some specific questions about measurable project impacts: Did it reduce arrest-to-arraignment time? Did it increase the Court’s use of intermediate sanctions or improve compliance rates? There are more complicated, detailed answers to other central research questions: What effect did the Court have on quality-of-life conditions in Midtown? How did community attitudes toward the Court change over the first eighteen months?
