Possibilities of Advancing Police Reform in Guatemala through Community -Oriented Policing

Police Responses to Community Policing

good deal of analysis has been done on organisational change within police bureaucracies and on operational changes in the streets. The link between these two processes of change in the transition to a community policing model needs to be better understood. Of course, management style and work culture are notoriously difficult to measure. It seems a reasonable assumption, however, that if commu...

Complaints against the Police: A 'Community Policing' Perspective

ecent events have identified a range of attempts to strike a balance in police accountability between citizen demands for effective, external police accountability mechanisms and a police preference for internal forms of accountability, in other words, for self-regulation. The quest for this balance has emerged from the failure of the police in recent years to convince many segments of the comm...

Police Reform in Georgia

Perceived Threat Associated with Police Officers and Black Men Predicts Support for Policing Policy Reform

Racial disparities in policing and recent high-profile incidents resulting in the deaths of Black men have ignited a national debate on policing policies. Given evidence that both police officers and Black men may be associated with threat, we examined the impact of perceived threat on support for reformed policing policies. Across three studies we found correlational evidence that perceiving p...

Professional and Community Oriented Policing: the Mayberry Model

A new descriptive metaphor of two policing strategies, Professional Policing and CommunityOriented Policing (COP), is created in this paper. This is done by examining the individual policing styles of the two officers of the Mayberry, NC Sheriff’s Department. Mayberry is a fictional town popularized by the Andy Griffith Show. Deputy Fife exemplifies the Professional Policing model, while Sherif...