As noted in your text, community policing represents a specific philosophy and practice in law enforcement. It requires police officers to alter the traditional approach to crime fighting as well as actions geared toward solving community problems or issues. Community policing is based on the idea that community support and interaction can prevent crime and solve local issues that confront communities, which ultimately is assumed to reduce the fear of crime shared by individuals and groups in
those communities. According to Thomas Frazier, former director of the U.S. Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, community policing exists when a “law enforcement agency and law abiding citizens work together to accomplish our things: 1) arrest offenders; 2) prevent crime; 3) solve ongoing
problems; and 4) improve the overall quality of life”
Community policing is defined as involving three key components: developing community partnerships, engaging in problem solving, and implementing community policing organizational features
-policing Community policing, including its numerous variations, incorporates a philosophy that provides the foundational values of a police department. The primary organizational goal is working with individual citizens, groups, and the public and private organizational sectors of a community to identify and resolve issues that impact the living conditions of neighborhoods or a city as a whole. Community based police agencies have realized that police cannot effectively deal with these issues alone; they need to work cooperatively with others who share a similar desire to resolve problems in the community.
As individuals, police officers traditionally have worked toward the goal of bringing together government and private resources to achieve defined objectives in combating crime. Communityoriented
police officers are trained to make purposeful effort
in creating and maintaining personal relationships with citizens, businesses, schools, and community organizations
Research Project
THE PROJECT
Welcome to Anytown, U.S.A., an average American city in most respects that, on the surface, appears to be a great place to live and to raise a family. The city has a diverse racial and economic makeup. The city’s population is composed of African Americans, Caucasians, and Latinos. The affluent sections of the city experience relatively low crime rates, and the middle and low income sections have seen a rise in crime and a growing distrust for the police. The police department has never used a community policing approach.
Following the lead of Frazier and the general community policing philosophy, as an officer of Any town Police Department, you have been tasked with preparing a community policing policy for your department. Create a six- to eight-page policy document (for presentation to command staff) that contains the elements listed in the following sections.
Project Objectives
Your document should address ways in which police and citizens work together to accomplish Arrests of offenders Crime prevention in the neighborhood improvement of the overall quality of life in the community or city Additionally, your policy should address the following questions: Based on your research, what kind of training will the
police officers of your department need to attend in order
to become proficient in community policing? What should
be the focus of these training sessions? Would training be provided for the community residents?
Why? Provide appropriate reasons for this decision.
How would the policy address the protection needs and fear of crime among specific groups such as juveniles, the elderly, minorities, the disabled, or the poor and the homeless? Finally, based on your research, how would the success or failure of this policy be determined? How would the policy be evaluated and by whom? As you write, be sure to incorporate and properly reference the sources of information obtained through your research and used in your paper. To cite your sources, please follow
this procedure:
1. Use in-text citations to indicate the use of information from outside sources. Include the author’s
name (or creator if it is an organization or group),
date and the relevant page or paragraph (if it is a
web page) number(s) in parentheses.
Here’s an example: Human beings have been described as “symbol-using animals” (Burke, 2018, p.3).
2. At the end of your paper, include an APA References page, listing all of the sources you’ve cited in your paper in alphabetical (A, B, C) order.
