NIJ Innovations in Measuring Community Perceptions Challenge Winner: Micro-Community Policing Plans

This entry proposes to build on the Micro-Community Policing Plans neighborhood level, nonprobability survey methodology. A key innovation is the use of Hello Lamp Post to invite members of the public to engage in text-based mobile phone chats with the intention of reaching potential respondents who might not respond to traditionally fielded (e.g., mail or web-based) surveys. Hello Lamp Post employs signs with QR codes, that are placed in various public spaces, to engage place users in chats via their mobile phones. This submission presents a novel method of exposing potential respondents to the existence of a survey with the goal of increasing participation.

The team included:

• Jacqueline B. Helfgott
• Seattle Police Department/Brian Maxey
• Denver Police Department/ Commander Jacob Herrera
• Hello Lamp Post/Isabel Loos

This entry won second prize in the category 1 nonprobability survey competition.