Community Policing

Community policing is a police strategy imposed to create a better relationship between the police and the community. Community Policing is defined as A collaborative effort between the police and the community that identifies problems of crime and disorder and involves all elements of the community in the search for solutions to these problems. Does community-based policing reach societies desired outcome and expectations? This is one of many questions we may have about the fairly …

…acknowledge that crime is a natural condition of society, not a problem to be solved, so that neither they, their personnel, their political leaders, nor the public will be deluded into unrealistic expectations by new programs. Although, it may eventually be the case that police administrators will have to show evidence that real changes have occurred that fit the community-policing image, reality so far has not yet caught up with the rhetoric of community policing.