The Pros And Cons Of Community Policing

This report gives a comprehensive understanding of the implementation of community policing in 12 police departments throughout the United States. The researchers observe, measures and draw conclusion of community policing.

There are a number of conditions that are concern and determine the effectiveness of policing practice and community policing. There are both positive and negative impacts of these conditions. Some general conditions according to Casey (2010) revolve around the stability of the community and the co-operation and cohesion of this community. For the concept of community policing to work, there must be a sense of stability within the community, trust with the police, belief of the community that the police are generally interested in the benefit of the community (Ontario Ministry Of Children And Youth Services, 2010), the belief and will of the country and community political commitment to help reform and provide a better form of safety and cohesion of the community for its own benefit. Another concept that is argued again is the resources of the police and government in different countries that allow the functioning of these policing practices being undertaken. For example, in developing countries, there are not usually any resources to apply these policing practices. Therefore also due to these different conditions within this country such as South Africa for example, there won’t be a positive effect of community based policing strategy; because of culture and other impacts on the type of communities and the running of the

Community policing helps citizens assume that the service of the police is there to take control of whichever the case may be when a situation happens. The community also needs to have some sort of equality with the police because the police and the community need each other to make the environment work. However, majority of the problem is that the community view police officers as abusing the law and although some officers do not all officers are bad. If the police and the community do try to work together then maybe the people can see that there are good officers and that it can change the way civilians see police officers. When it comes to the role of the police and taking care of their responsibilities the public needs to understand that.

Community policing broadens the nature and number of police functions compared with traditional policing. It emphasizes organizational change, active problem solving, and external partnerships to address issues that concern both the police and citizens. Community policing shifts the focus of policing by placing equal emphasis on crime control, order maintenance, and service. By providing better training for police officers with the issues of police profiling will make the police officers more aware of police profiling.

In order to fully understand each policing strategy, it is helpful to identify the benefits and drawbacks to each individual method. For example, Community Policing is a strategy that focuses on foot patrol within a neighborhood in order to build personal relationships with individuals. The goal is to establish trust and work together towards reducing crime. Some goals of this strategy include the trust that is built between citizens and officers.

Well first and foremost we have the Political Era, this era which was from 1840s to the 1930s. Strengths of this era are common to what we strive for in community policing today, for example in this era the police sought out a very close relationship with the community. Because of the tith act, which required every male to enroll for police duty in a group of families within a community, the police had a lot of man power which was a tremendous benefit for the “wards” (Miller, L., Hess, K., & Orthmann, C. 2005). With the tithing system this established the principals of collective responsibility for maintaining local law and order within their community or “ward” (Miller & all). One of the most important strengths but also a weakness was that the police officers lived within the community in which they

Community-Oriented Policing involves giving the Community it serves a voice in how the Police Department a voice, a powerful voice in the daily operations. In the traditional model of Policing, the police drive policy and methodology while the community has few options if they are dissatisfied with the level of service aside from legal suits and political pressure. Recent police involved shootings and excessive force allegations across the United States involve various Police Departments claiming to have implemented Community-Oriented Policing have still resulted in public displeasure. I am going to compare three metropolitan police departments: Chicago, New York City and Houston who are all listed in our textbook Oliver, 2008 as having Community-Oriented Police programs and compare how they address Use of Force issues at the various departments and how effectively they involve the Communities they serve.

A major impetus of the COPS grant program was the enhancement of officer safety. Not

Community policing is a philosophy. It uses organizational strategies that support the use of partnerships and problem solving techniques to address issues of public safety.Community-oriented policing is collaboration between the community, organizations within the community, and the police that identify and solve community problems. Police officers work with the community to help solve problems related to crime, fear of crime, social and physical disorder, and neighborhood conditions. They do this to enhance the safety and quality of neighborhoods. Officers spend time in these neighborhoods getting to know the residents and business owners by talking to them about the problems that the community is facing or individuals who are causing problems. They are responsible for reducing crime in their beats.

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The chief of the Abington Police, Chief William (Bill) Kelly came to the campus on Thursday to talk with the criminal justice class about policing. Chief Kelly has been serving for forty-three years between police forces in the states of Ohio and Pennsylvania - and has been a police chief for thirty-three years. With his years of experience, Chief Kelly talked about primarily three main ideas: Problem-Solving, Community- Oriented Policing and Abington’s Approach to Policing.

Police have a big role to fill when trying to maintain peace in society. According to the National Institute of Justice, “Community Policing is a model that creates partnership with the community and addresses underlying problems (Pollock 185).” Without the partnership, the relationship between police officers and the community would be a bit complicated, especially when it comes to dealing with a diverse community. A diverse community is a community that has different kinds of race and different cultures.

What is the appropriate role of police in crime prevention? In general, As Schneider (2010 & 2015) insists, even though community crime prevention is being placed the utmost importance on by many modern crime prevention theories and law enforcement besides police, the most vital role of police is unshakeable in preventing and controlling crime.

Community-oriented policing consist of three generations: the innovation (1979-1986), the diffusion (1987-1994), and the institutionalization (1995 to present). The first generation, innovation, focused on Herman Goldstein’s concerning police improvement and “broken windows” theory by Wilson and Kelling (1982). The early trials conducted during this period were known as “experiments”, “demonstration projects” and “test sites”. Oliver stated, “The style of community-oriented policing what was generally employed during this generation consisted of a single method such as foot patrols, problem solving, and community substations” (Oliver, 2008). In the second generation, diffusion, was still limited to medium/large cities and tactics generally targeted drugs and fear of crime issues while addressing police-community relationships. More importance was placed on the evaluating outcome through the use of research procedures. By 1994, the form of community policing had spread to more than eight thousand agencies in the United States. The third generation, institutionalization, nearly 68% of the local police agencies have adopted the community-oriented policing strategy. Oliver stated, “nearly $10 billion has been sent to state and local agencies to assist them in the adoption and implementation of community-oriented policing, which has contributed to the institutionalization of the systemic approach” (Oliver, 2008). Today’s community-oriented policing programs address neighborhood problems such as firearm violence, domestic violence, gangs and includes crime mapping techniques to identify criminal activity to assist the police with crime

Community policing is used all over the United States and the world. It is applied in many places around the world such as Chicago, New York, Japan and Northern Ireland to name a few. It has varying effectiveness in each place it works better in some places than others. There are many things that go into making community policing successful, the community and the police need to be willing to work together. Some reasons why it might not work would be that the police my be lazy and not want to be directly involved and find doing this sort of thing is beneath them, on the other hand sometimes the community might have a bad relationship with the police and not want to have them being around all the time helping. One example of community policing being effective as said in Understanding Community Policing by the Bureau of Justice