PRIDE differs from traditional community policing models in that agendas and meetings are designed and run by community members; there is an active youth component to PRIDE; and PRIDE goes beyond meeting with local police officials to address city-wide and national issues and to involve various arms of law-enforcement and government in its attempts to increase community safety. All of this results in a mutually accountable relationship between community members and the police.

Since its inception, some of PRIDE's major accomplishments include:

• A major policy change to the City of Chicago's 911 system to protect caller anonymity
• Improved police patrol around area schools
• Patrol of community-identified hot spots
• Police bike patrol
• The board up and patrol of abandoned buildings
• The placement of crossing guards at dangerous intersections
• Revocation of liquor licenses to bars and stores involved in illegal activity like drug dealing and alcohol sales to minors
• Youth designed billboards advertising the safety work of the youth council
• Participation in the Chicago Community Safety Coalition with the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, which won a meeting with Chicago Police Superintendent Terry Hillard to address issues of police accountability on a city-wide level.