Evaluate The Effectiveness Of Community Policing

The concept to community policing is to have an efficient organization and partnership between the citizens of the community and the police to address issues of public safety and disorder. Using the textbook, Crime Justice: A Brief Introduction 11th Edition, and the chapter 4 PowerPoint, I have generated an opinion to which I think community policing isn’t fully effective, depending on the community’s culture and police. Community policing is suppose to actively seek the community’s engagement and efforts to ideally determine neighborhood problems and how to address them. To contrast though, looking at page 117 in the textbook, critiques have been developed that community’s who have dissatisfaction with the police are seen a lot in neighborhoods characterized with: street crime, drug trafficking, minorities, and poverty. There is also citizen dissatisfaction generally with African Americans in much higher levels, as reported in studies which are generally stated in the textbook, and relationships between the police and African Americans remain poor. Also, officers in these types of neighborhood tend to see their role more as strict interpretation of the law and arrest, rather than coming together with the community to define community needs and approach them.