POLICE CULTURE AND COMMUNITY POLICING

Police Culture and Community Policing

Police Culture and Community Policing

Community Policing

Community policing “reforms” have sought to provide the police with greater public acceptance and political grounding. Moreover, Goldstein emphasized that the police acting alone rarely had sustainable results. Reactive policing was shaped more by the public's willingness to call the police than by police-derived interventions. The idea of community policing emerged from Goldstein's critique—it represented a sharp detour from conventional police crime-attack approaches, and it set the stage for decades of experimentation on police practices.

Elements of Community Policing

At its base, community policing is focused ...