NeighBoard
Crystal Compton, Ellen Dupler, J. Walter Lee · 2019
Augmenting grassroots community policing (CP) efforts with technologies that assist citizens is a promising strategy for reducing real and perceived fear of crime. We used a human-centered design approach, working with residents of the St. Paul Summit-University neighborhood, to discern abstract functionalities for developing new CP technology. We then created and evaluated NeighBoard (Figure 1), which aims to enhance the social fabric of communities by letting citizens implement their own strategies for preventing crime and maintaining safety in their neighborhood.