Community Policing

Term Paper # 101747

Criminology > Public and Crime
Public Administration
Sociology

Community Policing

This paper discuses community policing, which is a program that link the police to the neighborhood citizens in an effort to solve the problems of the area.

3,425 words () | 14 sources | APA | 2007 United States

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that community policing has been successful in reducing crime and in improving the relationship between the police and the public. The author points out that bringing the community and the police together changes the traditional image of the police as an occupying force. The paper relates that community policing necessitates a number of organizational changes such as recruitment and education. The author states that this approach calls attention to the degree to which the police are dependent on the public for support, information and cooperation. The paper explains that one way for the police to learn more about the neighborhood is to be residents themselves; therefore, requiring officers to live in the community enhances the community policing effort and adds to the comfort level on both sides.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Effectiveness and Organizational Change
Involvement by Community Policing Institutes
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Relations between the police and the black community have long been tense. In some regions, the police are viewed as an occupying army present not to protect the people but to control them and to keep them in their place. Numerous civil disturbances in recent decades can be traced to tensions between the police and the black community, from the riots of the summer of 1965 to the riot in Los Angeles after the first Rodney King verdict, from the problems in Crown Heights in New York to any number of disputed police shooting incidents in cities across the country."

Sample of Sources Used:

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Carter, D.L. & Radelet, L.A. (1999). The police and the community. Columbus, Ohio: Prentice Hall.
Community Policing: Principles and Elements (2007). Kentucky Regional Community Policing Institute. Retrieved February 16, 2007 from http://www.kycops.org/whatIs.htm.
Guyot, D. (1991). Policing. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.