Praying for Community Policing

COMMUNITY POLICING: Training Issues

*Editorial and writing assistance provided by Bonnie Pollard. Introduction* The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications that community policing has for police officer training, as well as to examine the issue those implications raise. Outlining the boundaries of these concerns is important, because community policing differs radically from traditions policing, such as motor patrol,...

Effective Community Policing Performance Measures

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...

Community Policing Working Paper 27 Statistical

Problem solving is one of the key components of CAPS. In Chicago, police and thousands of neighborhood residents have been trained to respond to local problems using a fivestep process. It involves identifying and prioritizing problems; analyzing them following the “crime triangle”; designing strategies to deal with the chronic character of priority problems; implementing the plan; and evaluati...

Can Community Policing Help The Truly Disadvantaged?

Community policing advocates argue that reforms designed to break down barriers between police and citizens can produce favorable outcomes. The authors test a series of related hypotheses in a multivariate context by using four independent data sources— community surveys, patrol officer interviews, Census Bureau, and police crime records— to estimate hierarchical linear models. The results show...