Survey Results
In October, 2009, a street team of Newark residents surveyed other Newark residents face-to-face throughout Newark’s 20 neighborhoods. The survey, with many open-ended questions, was designed to gather residents’ own words about their experiences and priorities, conducted person-to-person by other Newark residents. The questions included:
- See results.
- What are the best things about your neighborhood?
- What kind of service or program could do the most good for your community? See results.
- Did the recent hospital closings in the area affect you? See results.
- Do you know where people can go to get the following health services? See results.
- Do you or someone close to you have the following housing problems? See results.
- When you had a problem or concern, where would you personally go to take care of it? See results.
- How do you feel about them? See results.
- What city officials or organizations do you trust? Are there any that you don’t trust? See results.
- What could YOU do to improve your community? If you are already active in your community, what do you do?
- Are you interested in participating in focus groups, community forums etc. in the future? See results.
If you’d like to share your thoughts and opinions, please click here to take our website version of the survey.
Community-Police Relations
For 7 straight days in March 2010, a street team of Newark residents surveyed other residents as part of another face-to-face survey, this time about Community-Police Relations. We have completed a first round of surveys on behalf of the Newark Police Department, focused on getting in depth, open ended responses from over 500 Newark residents from throughout the City. The first round results are here. Would you please help us to disseminate the second round survey to your networks of Newark community members? Our goal is to get at least 2,000 responses to this survey, which asks for input on the biggest concerns that the first round highlighted.
