Community Policing
Police officers in todays society have many duties which include protecting the rights of individuals, public safety, and many more. Officers are given this power through the government and public and they are expected to uphold these duties to the fullest extent. Stop, detain, question, arrest, and even the use of deadly physical force is some of the powers that police officers have as well. Even having these powers and duties, they still have to take the communities wishes into consideration. The quality of community-police relationships strengthens when the police achieve the goals of the community for public safety. If the community is satisfied with the work done by police not only are the relationship strengthened, but it also builds
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Community policing goes hand in hand with community service and public relations. Although they share a lot of the same concerns and ideas, community policing focuses more on the organizational, strategic, and tactical side of things (Cordner, 1996). According to Gary Cordner, community policing is a philosophy that uses organizational strategies which help in supporting problem-solving techniques and also address concerns in public safety issues, for example, crime, social disorder, and the fear of crime (Cordner, 2014). This strategy realizes that there is more to policing than fight crime. Officers and departments understand that they need to be involved with conflicts within the community as well as other problems that arise and also providing a variety of different services. As for the strategic side of things, police are more focused on addressing and recognizing long-term community problems. Instead of just responding to dispatch calls for service they listen to the community members concerns by attending meetings within the neighborhoods and engaging in conversation while on foot patrol. Within the strategic dimension there three different important elements which are re-oriented operations, prevention emphasis, and geographic focus (Cordner, 1996). Re-oriented operations deal with foot patrols, directed patrols, and other modes of transportation, such as bicycle or horse patrol (Cordner, 1996). The approaches that are taken for prevention emphasis would be situational crime prevention, youth-oriented prevention, or community crime prevention (Cordner, 1996). Finally, geographic focus methods use lead officers, permanent beast assignments, or area specialists (Cordner, 1996). These examples are just a few of the many tactics the police departments use to build police-community relationships. For the tactical side of community policing, this is when the department implements programs within the community to help with various problems
Community policing goes hand in hand with community service and public relations. Although they share a lot of the same concerns and ideas, community policing focuses more on the organizational, strategic, and tactical side of things (Cordner, 1996). According to Gary Cordner, community policing is a philosophy that uses organizational strategies which help in supporting problem-solving techniques and also address concerns in public safety issues, for example, crime, social disorder, and the fear of crime (Cordner, 2014). This strategy realizes that there is more to policing than fight crime. Officers and departments understand that they need to be involved with conflicts within the community as well as other problems that arise and also providing a variety of different services. As for the strategic side of things, police are more focused on addressing and recognizing long-term community problems. Instead of just responding to dispatch calls for service they listen to the community members concerns by attending meetings within the neighborhoods and engaging in conversation while on foot patrol. Within the strategic dimension there three different important elements which are re-oriented operations, prevention emphasis, and geographic focus (Cordner, 1996). Re-oriented operations deal with foot patrols, directed patrols, and other modes of transportation, such as bicycle or horse patrol (Cordner, 1996). The approaches that are taken for prevention emphasis would be situational crime prevention, youth-oriented prevention, or community crime prevention (Cordner, 1996). Finally, geographic focus methods use lead officers, permanent beast assignments, or area specialists (Cordner, 1996). These examples are just a few of the many tactics the police departments use to build police-community relationships. For the tactical side of community policing, this is when the department implements programs within the community to help with various problems