What Is Community Policing-Trojanowixz/Bucqueroux?
Community Policing-Trojanowixz/Bucqueroux
Regina L. Golden
AJS/502
January 12, 2015
John Baiamonte
Community Policing-Trojanowixz/Bucqueroux
Community policing ideology is to bring communities and law enforcement closer together. The very idea to bring the protectors of a community to the citizens in order to build trust, and assist both law enforcement and communities in reducing crime, and was developed in the early 1980s. As time goes by, the idea of community policing did not flourish in all cities as first hoped. Community policing brought along the administration problems of what is known as mid-management adversity. The operational aspect of community policing primary mission is to prevent crime, involve the community in investigating …show more content…
Investigation becomes personal due the vested time an officer makes to his beat. Crime investigation means any offence against the neighborhood. Property damage, theft, violence, and drugs are all prime examples. Drug crime involves the average citizen in solving this problem. The selling of illegal drugs not only presents the neighborhood with vicious dealers, but the addict that can become violent in a split second. Trojanowicz (n.d.), "Involving average citizens in community-based, police-supervised anti-drug initiatives to drive drug dealing from their neighborhoods offers new solutions that do not focus exclusively on arrest, which rarely does more than clog the rest of the criminal justice system" (Scope of …show more content…
Terrorism is one of the primary concerns for America today, and bringing community policing into homeland security aspect of law enforcement is a work in progress. Docobo(2005), “Through programs such as Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), intelligence gathering, information sharing, and the use of GIS mapping and analysis, law enforcement can identify and conduct security assessments of critical infrastructure and other important private sector facilities” (p. 5 ). State and local law enforcement are the frontlines of community terrorism. Terrorism is ramped across the globe and can be seen in every avenue of daily life. The further development of community policing and the use across the board should have significant advantages with the war on
Regina L. Golden
AJS/502
January 12, 2015
John Baiamonte
Community Policing-Trojanowixz/Bucqueroux
Community policing ideology is to bring communities and law enforcement closer together. The very idea to bring the protectors of a community to the citizens in order to build trust, and assist both law enforcement and communities in reducing crime, and was developed in the early 1980s. As time goes by, the idea of community policing did not flourish in all cities as first hoped. Community policing brought along the administration problems of what is known as mid-management adversity. The operational aspect of community policing primary mission is to prevent crime, involve the community in investigating …show more content…
Investigation becomes personal due the vested time an officer makes to his beat. Crime investigation means any offence against the neighborhood. Property damage, theft, violence, and drugs are all prime examples. Drug crime involves the average citizen in solving this problem. The selling of illegal drugs not only presents the neighborhood with vicious dealers, but the addict that can become violent in a split second. Trojanowicz (n.d.), "Involving average citizens in community-based, police-supervised anti-drug initiatives to drive drug dealing from their neighborhoods offers new solutions that do not focus exclusively on arrest, which rarely does more than clog the rest of the criminal justice system" (Scope of …show more content…
Terrorism is one of the primary concerns for America today, and bringing community policing into homeland security aspect of law enforcement is a work in progress. Docobo(2005), “Through programs such as Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED), intelligence gathering, information sharing, and the use of GIS mapping and analysis, law enforcement can identify and conduct security assessments of critical infrastructure and other important private sector facilities” (p. 5 ). State and local law enforcement are the frontlines of community terrorism. Terrorism is ramped across the globe and can be seen in every avenue of daily life. The further development of community policing and the use across the board should have significant advantages with the war on