Effectiveness of Community Policing
The Effectiveness of Community Policing
American Military University
CMRJ302 U.S. Law Enforcement
Abstract
This paper will discuss community policing and its effectiveness throughout the United States, to include the development of community policing; the essential components of community policing, how community policing principles and methods are used, and how prevalent community policing is through the United States. Community policing is an effective model that can reduce crime while allowing the police to form partnerships with citizens and communities. The communities that have embraced community policing enjoy good relationships with the police and have lower crime rates than areas that have only traditional policing methods in place.
The Effectiveness of Community Policing Community policing as a model gained momentum in 1994, when Congress passed a Crime Bill that allotted $11 billion dollars to law enforcement agencies all over the United States in order to pay for 100,000 new officers, so that the model of community policing could take hold in the United States (Gaines & Kappeler, 2008). As community policing grew within the United States, police departments wrangled with how to implement the principles that encompassed community policing, such as the philosophic dimension, the strategic dimension, and the programmatic dimension of community policing. All dimensions are necessary in order to have effective community policing; when partnered with citizen participation in the crime prevention process, community policing becomes a powerful method of crime prevention and crime suppression. Citizens work closely with the police, and both sides get to know each other personally. Community policing has proven to be effective method of policing that engages the community to help solve the problem of crime.
Defining Community Policing Community policing can be confusing when it comes to defining what it exactly is, since community policing means one
American Military University
CMRJ302 U.S. Law Enforcement
Abstract
This paper will discuss community policing and its effectiveness throughout the United States, to include the development of community policing; the essential components of community policing, how community policing principles and methods are used, and how prevalent community policing is through the United States. Community policing is an effective model that can reduce crime while allowing the police to form partnerships with citizens and communities. The communities that have embraced community policing enjoy good relationships with the police and have lower crime rates than areas that have only traditional policing methods in place.
The Effectiveness of Community Policing Community policing as a model gained momentum in 1994, when Congress passed a Crime Bill that allotted $11 billion dollars to law enforcement agencies all over the United States in order to pay for 100,000 new officers, so that the model of community policing could take hold in the United States (Gaines & Kappeler, 2008). As community policing grew within the United States, police departments wrangled with how to implement the principles that encompassed community policing, such as the philosophic dimension, the strategic dimension, and the programmatic dimension of community policing. All dimensions are necessary in order to have effective community policing; when partnered with citizen participation in the crime prevention process, community policing becomes a powerful method of crime prevention and crime suppression. Citizens work closely with the police, and both sides get to know each other personally. Community policing has proven to be effective method of policing that engages the community to help solve the problem of crime.
Defining Community Policing Community policing can be confusing when it comes to defining what it exactly is, since community policing means one
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