The Pros And Cons Of Community Policing

It seems as there was countless number of problems with community policing. In some ways it turned out good but in some ways it turned out bad. It seems as if most of these have failed. Community policing programs are being embraced by many different police departments all over the world. The police officers that are assigned to community policing are asked to engages in problem solving. In a recent survey of the heads of law enforcement agencies across the country, a full 46% reported that they had implemented a community policing program (Wycoff,1994). Middle managers are often threatened by the loss of authority and control over the line officers that often accompanies the shift to community policing (Roberg, 1994, Skogan, 1994). Community
Meaning for the cops to be seen ever once in a while maybe just going down the road to check on things in the neighborhood. In these areas, there is less to almost no crime at all. Simple visibility is basically where a police car will occasionally cruise through the neighborhood. In stable apartment complexes, they usually have gated parking lots which makes it harder for a cop to cruise through the neighborhood. For that reason they have monthly meetings to go over things that are going on and to keep up with some problems that may have took place. In stressed apartment complexes, they many other different approaches. These approaches being focused patrol, saturation patrol, and interactive programs. Meaning the approaches are a lot tougher than you would see in a stable neighborhood. They have to focus more one on one time and watch these areas carefully due to the fact of more crime happens in these types of neighborhoods. All these approaches differ from the ones being used in high stressed areas because the crime in these areas are more likely to take place on a daily basis. Such as break ins, stealing, people doing damage to peoples cars and homes. These areas would be high crime commerical locations such as malls. "According to Kruger and Landmark (2003), target hardening is often the first solution that occurs to residents and designers because it physically reduces the vulnerability of a potential target." You see most people that are out looking for trouble to hit up these places because it seems easier to get a way with putting something in your pocket or purse. There is a lot more people in a mall then in a regular store like Dollar Tree. Yes there is video recording the store but that don't mean its on every walk