COMMUNITY POLICING

Community Policing

Abstract

In this paper, we try to explore the concept of community policing. Community policing represents the driving force behind the current efforts to reform law enforcement, providing both the rationale and the mechanisms for changing the nature and goals of policing in America. We also discuss two current community policing initiatives that have been successful in dealing with a problem, and their advantages. In last we clearly mentioned the reason of the community policing success.

Community Policing

Introduction

Thus, the challenge for police today and into the twenty-first century is to find creative ways to help communities help themselves. Community policing officers can pursue numerous paths toward achieving self-regulated and self-defended neighborhoods, including working jointly and equally with citizens, to define local problems, educating the community about the causes of crime and disorder, helping develop action plans that are responsive to these issues, and working with citizens to identify and mobilize resources—both inside and outside the community—to solve and prevent the target problems. The possibilities for citizen involvement are variegated, but the outcomes of these activities are still uncertain.Two current community policing initiatives that have been successful in dealing with a problemPartnerships

At the heart, of the community policing model is the empirically supported the idea that the police are more effective in solving neighborhood problems when they use the resources available in the community than when they try to complete the task alone. With the emergence of community policing, emphasis is now given to the “co-production” of public safety (Lavrakas, 1985; Murphy & Muir, 1984; Rosen Baum, 1988). In this framework, safety is viewed as a commodity that is produced by the joint efforts of the police and community, working together in ways that were not envisioned or encouraged in the past. 

As Kelling and Coles (1996) state, in fact, no efforts at restoring order in the community will be successful in the long run without the development of a full partnership between citizens in the community and the criminal justice institutions that affect conditions in their neighborhoods. This partnership must be fully inclusive of all racial, ethnic, religious, and economic groups; it must be subject to continuous renewal and reaffirmation; and it must provide the basis for the development of any efforts by the city to restore order, including the authority of police to implement an order-restoration program.Fighting Disorder

One primary problem-solving approach within the community policing repertoire focuses on attempts, to eliminate physical and social disorders. This “Broken Windows,” or order maintenance approach, to ...