Community Policing
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An Overview of Community Policing: Origins, Concepts and Implementation. In
Tom Williamson (ed.) The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Policing: Current
Conceptions and Future Directions. London and New York: John Wiley & Sons,
2008, 43-57.
Police departments across the United States report that they have adopted
community policing, an organizational strategy which supplements traditional
crime fighting with problem solving and prevention-oriented programs that
emphasize new roles for the public. While there are competing models,
community policing is surely one of the most important developments in
American policing in the past half-century. It is a model of policing which has
been adopted elsewhere, including Canada, Australia and the UK. Chapters in
this book review parallel movements in other nations as well. This chapter
focuses on developments in the United States. It first presents a brief history of
developments that led up to community policing there. Then it reviews the three
core concepts that make up community policing, and describes how these
concepts have been turned into concrete programs. The chapter concludes with
questions about the future of community policing. Throughout, it draws heavily
on my experience in evaluating community programs in a number of cities, as
well as on research by others.
Tom Williamson (ed.) The Handbook of Knowledge-Based Policing: Current
Conceptions and Future Directions. London and New York: John Wiley & Sons,
2008, 43-57.
Police departments across the United States report that they have adopted
community policing, an organizational strategy which supplements traditional
crime fighting with problem solving and prevention-oriented programs that
emphasize new roles for the public. While there are competing models,
community policing is surely one of the most important developments in
American policing in the past half-century. It is a model of policing which has
been adopted elsewhere, including Canada, Australia and the UK. Chapters in
this book review parallel movements in other nations as well. This chapter
focuses on developments in the United States. It first presents a brief history of
developments that led up to community policing there. Then it reviews the three
core concepts that make up community policing, and describes how these
concepts have been turned into concrete programs. The chapter concludes with
questions about the future of community policing. Throughout, it draws heavily
on my experience in evaluating community programs in a number of cities, as
well as on research by others.