Community Policing Has A Huge Impact On Police-Community Relations
Community policing has a huge impact on police-community relations. Community policing is the philosophy of a police-community, strategic partnership to proactively address crime and disorder within the community to reduce crimes and improve quality of life. Due to community policing, police officers have a variety of services available to them such as community residents, social service organizations and other government organizations (Gaines, 2014) which can help them to effectively maintain law and order. There are other benefits to community policing. It can improve the broken trust, relationship and perception the public have with the police. The media has painted all police officers as corrupt government officials due to recent news of
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The main ingredient for community policing is involvement more so from the police. It first starts officers’ motivation to make community policing successful. However, researchers have discovered five challenges to the implementation of community policing. The first challenge is the philosophy of police officers only being the enforcer of law. Some police department feel that community involvement is unnecessary when it is the duty of the police to enforce laws and fight crimes. They only believed through enforcement and suppression is the key to fulfilling their oath to protecting and serving. Another challenge is the inconsistent of some police departments implementing community policing within the community. For example, a police department swinging from traditional policing to community policing when its benefit them the most causes confusion among members of the community and unfair treatment. The third challenge is police departments inability to change their organizational structure to integrate community policing within themselves. It becomes counterproductive for departments to change its policy without enforcing them. Another challenge is getting police managers and supervisors on the bandwagon to pursue community policing activities. If they are not believers of community policing, then the organizational climate within the department will
The main ingredient for community policing is involvement more so from the police. It first starts officers’ motivation to make community policing successful. However, researchers have discovered five challenges to the implementation of community policing. The first challenge is the philosophy of police officers only being the enforcer of law. Some police department feel that community involvement is unnecessary when it is the duty of the police to enforce laws and fight crimes. They only believed through enforcement and suppression is the key to fulfilling their oath to protecting and serving. Another challenge is the inconsistent of some police departments implementing community policing within the community. For example, a police department swinging from traditional policing to community policing when its benefit them the most causes confusion among members of the community and unfair treatment. The third challenge is police departments inability to change their organizational structure to integrate community policing within themselves. It becomes counterproductive for departments to change its policy without enforcing them. Another challenge is getting police managers and supervisors on the bandwagon to pursue community policing activities. If they are not believers of community policing, then the organizational climate within the department will