Collective Efficacy Theory - Chicago vs. Adventure Racing

Collective Efficacy Theory is a social cohesion for shared and controlled expectations by a group or community. It is their social organization shared together that can control or effect directly an outcome or expectation. This definition proves largely concrete and repeatable throughout it's testing.
One such experiment was done in an Adventure Racing scene. The Adventure Racing team tested in the experiment I read about consisted of three person teams. All of the teams that competed in this particular race participated in the experiment. Their findings were outstanding and are summarized here,

"Consistent with the theoretical concept, the results of the study indicated a moderate to strong positive relationship between perceptions of collective efficacy and subsequent performance at each CP (checkpoint) and throughout the race. The findings provide some support for the structure and relationship defined by the theoretical concept (of Collective Efficacy). That is, a reciprocal relationship exists between col- lective efficacy and performance (Myers et al., 2004; Watson et al., 2001)."

So to reiterate the point of their findings, the higher or more prevalent the collective efficacy of the team the higher or better performance was found. Those teams who showcased high levels of Collective Efficacy performed the best in the race. 

As far as answering the questions posed by Sampson, here are my responses below (I will be answering the questions on a 1-5 scale. 1 being least likely to to action and 5 meaning extremely likely to take action.):

1.  The likelihood of my neighborhood taking action if children on a street corner were hanging out and skipping school would be a 4. 
2. The likelihood of my neighborhood taking action if children are spray-painting a graffiti on a local building would be a 5. 
3. The likelihood of my neighborhood taking action if children were showing disrespect to an adult would be 3.
4.  The likelihood of my neighborhood taking action if a  fight broke out in forms of their house would be a 5.
5.  The likelihood of my neighborhood taking action if the fire station closest to home was threatened with budget cuts would be a 3. 

All things considered after answering these questions myself, I feel my neighborhood has a medium to high presence of collective efficacy. I do feel safe and have a high confidence level that if the situations above were to occur or if a serious crime took place in my neighborhood the probability for action to be taken would be very high! 

Reference to Adventure Racing here - http://sgr.sagepub.com/content/40/2/163.full.pdf+html