Community Policing
Effectiveness of Community Policing To understand the effectiveness of community policing we first must understand the concept regarding community policing. Community policing is both a philosophy and an organizational strategy that allows the police and the community residences to work closely together in new ways to solve the problems, fear of crime, criminal disorder and at the same time increasing the community living conditions. Community policing implies an agreement, almost like a formal contract, between the police and the community it serves. The concept breeds hope of overcoming wide spread crime at the same time preventing the outbreak of lone individuals who take matters in their own hands, or vigilantism. Overall community
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From the days of the old where night watchmen would watch the streets, to the today concept of law enforcement, the ideology was that a private law enforcement agency could manage and eliminate crime. Through several years of research and a lot of trial by error a new concept was brought to light. The idea of using the citizens of the local communities to be the eyes and ears of the law enforcement. Who else to provide quick, reliable intelligence then the people who knew the streets, the criminals, there associates and where they liked to hung out. However, over the years a barrier between the police agencies and communities had formed and now that barrier needed to be removed. That is one of the reasons why, in 1994, Congress pass a Crime Bill that, among other things, funded 100,000 new police officer and allocated approximately $11 billion to law enforcement (Gaines & Kappeler, 2008, p. 453). The passing of this bill was one of the most substantial criminal justice funding efforts ever passed by Congress, it solidified support for community policing as the primary law enforcement modality for dealing and interaction with the community (Gaines & Kappeler, 2008, p. 454). In essence, this bill laid the foundation for community policing evolution of police-community to the idea of team policing strategies. Now that the ground work had been laid, where …show more content…
454). In essence Goldstein concept was that police agencies need to address the problems of crime and resolve those issues first and Wilson and Kelling concept was that the if criminal activity was left uncheck in a community, then the community itself would be swallowed up in the criminal activity. Overall, Goldstein, Wilson and Kelling concepts began the development of the community policing. Their ideas that the problems needed to be addressed directly and not as a group and that the community had to take pride in their areas was the baseline for community policing. There were several ideas that were developed to have an effective program. The main ideals were to broaden police function, to have citizen inputs and have neighborhood coverage. This resulted in the police changing from reactionary law enforcement concept to a proactive law enforcement concept. Meaning instead of waiting for the citizens to report crime, law enforcement agencies were incorporated into communities, Police sub-station were developed to provide better access to the police. Officers were assigned to a geographical areas, and that was their patrolling area. Programs, like Drug Abuse Resistance and Education Program (D.A.R.E.) and Crime Prevention Program with McGruff the Crime Dog, were
From the days of the old where night watchmen would watch the streets, to the today concept of law enforcement, the ideology was that a private law enforcement agency could manage and eliminate crime. Through several years of research and a lot of trial by error a new concept was brought to light. The idea of using the citizens of the local communities to be the eyes and ears of the law enforcement. Who else to provide quick, reliable intelligence then the people who knew the streets, the criminals, there associates and where they liked to hung out. However, over the years a barrier between the police agencies and communities had formed and now that barrier needed to be removed. That is one of the reasons why, in 1994, Congress pass a Crime Bill that, among other things, funded 100,000 new police officer and allocated approximately $11 billion to law enforcement (Gaines & Kappeler, 2008, p. 453). The passing of this bill was one of the most substantial criminal justice funding efforts ever passed by Congress, it solidified support for community policing as the primary law enforcement modality for dealing and interaction with the community (Gaines & Kappeler, 2008, p. 454). In essence, this bill laid the foundation for community policing evolution of police-community to the idea of team policing strategies. Now that the ground work had been laid, where …show more content…
454). In essence Goldstein concept was that police agencies need to address the problems of crime and resolve those issues first and Wilson and Kelling concept was that the if criminal activity was left uncheck in a community, then the community itself would be swallowed up in the criminal activity. Overall, Goldstein, Wilson and Kelling concepts began the development of the community policing. Their ideas that the problems needed to be addressed directly and not as a group and that the community had to take pride in their areas was the baseline for community policing. There were several ideas that were developed to have an effective program. The main ideals were to broaden police function, to have citizen inputs and have neighborhood coverage. This resulted in the police changing from reactionary law enforcement concept to a proactive law enforcement concept. Meaning instead of waiting for the citizens to report crime, law enforcement agencies were incorporated into communities, Police sub-station were developed to provide better access to the police. Officers were assigned to a geographical areas, and that was their patrolling area. Programs, like Drug Abuse Resistance and Education Program (D.A.R.E.) and Crime Prevention Program with McGruff the Crime Dog, were