Community-Oriented and Traditional Policing

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Contemporary perspectives within law enforcement are increasingly dependent on the relatively new practice of community-oriented policing. Community-oriented policing is challenging many of the more traditional areas of policing that have been continued by many departments with little change. This paper examines traditional methods of policing in a comparison with more progressive and challenging notions of community-oriented policing. The author presents her personal opinion on the two forms.

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"This perspective, shared by many in the traditional policing community of advocates, is somewhat challenged by the information provided by John M. MacDonald, who looks at the recent decline of violent crime in America and asks whether or not the increasing shift from traditional to community policing methods has anything to do with this decrease. "This change in violent crime rates is a particularly important issue given the efforts of the federal government under the 1994 Violent Crime Act to increase community policing at the national level" (MacDonald, 2002, p. 592). MacDonald notes that in recent years, the number of violent crimes in this nation's cities has dropped significantly. At the same time, more and more police departments have organized many new COP programs."

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