Police and Community in Chicago: A Tale of Three CitiesHighly popular with both the public and political leaders, community policing is the most important development in law enforcement in the last twenty five years. But does community policing really work? Can police departments fundamentally change their organization? Can neighborhood problems be solved? In the early 1990s, Chicago, the nation's third largest city, instituted the nation's largest community policing initiative. Wesley G. Skogan here