Community Policing

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This paper attempts to understand the concepts behind community policing, developed in response to a growing awareness that the incident-based paradigm of policing was not producing the desired outcomes. It examines how, in the contemporary United States, several factors combine to create tensions between police departments and community areas of high ethnic and racial concentration. It looks at how this increased incidence of crime within these neighborhoods of and the tendency for police forces to be composed predominantly of individuals drawn from the majority Anglo population group lead to conflicts in many communities. A literature review is supplemented with findings developed through interviews with serving police officers in eastern Pennsylvania in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area.

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"Problems of a special character also are encountered with respect to crime type (violent versus property) and offender (adult versus juvenile). Crime in the United States, particularly violent crime, has been a major concern of the American population for decades. Although incumbent politicians, of whatever political party, usually supply statistics to indicate that the crime problem has been and is being effectively dealt with under their administrations, most people, particularly those residing in the country's urban areas, tend to perceive little improvement in the situation (Kelling & Coles, 1996)."

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