What Is Community Policing
Review of Literature
Community Policing and Police-Community Relations in the US context Community policing is a philosophy of policing which emphasizes partnerships between the police and the public (Walker & Katz, 2013). This approach considers cooperation between the police and the community as an important mechanism that gives the police better access to information provided by the community, which in turn can make the police more responsive to the needs of the community. Historically, community policing originated in 1970s and 1980s in the United States, when the police suffered a legitimacy problem. The police were criticized for being alienated from the important parts of the community, especially from racial and ethnic minority groups. …show more content…
The research on racial/ethnic minorities’ perceptions of the police is a different topic from immigrants’ perceptions of the police; however, both studies are relevant because racial/ethnic minority status is one of the important demographic characteristics of the immigrant groups that affect their perceptions of the police (Wu, 2010). Therefore, this section discusses both immigrants’ perceptions of the police and ethnic minority groups’ perceptions of the police. It is important to recognize however that there are many other factors that can affect citizens’ perception of the police such as age, gender, experience with crime, former contact with police, neighborhood conditions, degree of assimilation to the arrival country, perceptions of home country police, etc. (Wu, …show more content…
A total number of eight participants: six sworn police officers from the Aurora Police Department, one city official, and one nonprofit personnel. The officers’ rank (positions in parenthesis) were as follows: five officers (three current Police Area Representatives, or PAR officers, one former Police Area Representative and investigation/electronic support officer, one recruiter and background investigator), and one lieutenant (Executive Officer at the Office of the Chief of Police). One city official works for the office of International and Immigrant Affairs of the City of Aurora. One nonprofit person works as a deputy director at the Asian Pacific Development Center of Colorado (APDC). Interviews were semi-structured (See Appendix 1 for interview protocol) and recorded and transcribed in the form of detailed
Community Policing and Police-Community Relations in the US context Community policing is a philosophy of policing which emphasizes partnerships between the police and the public (Walker & Katz, 2013). This approach considers cooperation between the police and the community as an important mechanism that gives the police better access to information provided by the community, which in turn can make the police more responsive to the needs of the community. Historically, community policing originated in 1970s and 1980s in the United States, when the police suffered a legitimacy problem. The police were criticized for being alienated from the important parts of the community, especially from racial and ethnic minority groups. …show more content…
The research on racial/ethnic minorities’ perceptions of the police is a different topic from immigrants’ perceptions of the police; however, both studies are relevant because racial/ethnic minority status is one of the important demographic characteristics of the immigrant groups that affect their perceptions of the police (Wu, 2010). Therefore, this section discusses both immigrants’ perceptions of the police and ethnic minority groups’ perceptions of the police. It is important to recognize however that there are many other factors that can affect citizens’ perception of the police such as age, gender, experience with crime, former contact with police, neighborhood conditions, degree of assimilation to the arrival country, perceptions of home country police, etc. (Wu, …show more content…
A total number of eight participants: six sworn police officers from the Aurora Police Department, one city official, and one nonprofit personnel. The officers’ rank (positions in parenthesis) were as follows: five officers (three current Police Area Representatives, or PAR officers, one former Police Area Representative and investigation/electronic support officer, one recruiter and background investigator), and one lieutenant (Executive Officer at the Office of the Chief of Police). One city official works for the office of International and Immigrant Affairs of the City of Aurora. One nonprofit person works as a deputy director at the Asian Pacific Development Center of Colorado (APDC). Interviews were semi-structured (See Appendix 1 for interview protocol) and recorded and transcribed in the form of detailed