UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITY POLICING IN 21st CENTURY AMERICA
By
Ryan Montgomery
Dr. V. Batchelor
GEN 411
April 2017
Abstract
Community policing, a model that basically entails a collaboration between police officers and the communities that they serve, has been touted as a promising avenue through which police departments can improve the quality of service and foster better public safety. In response, police departments across the United States took to this new model of policing. The purpose of the present paper is to provide an understanding of community policing in the United States today. After a scan of relevant literature on four police departments; Chicago police department, Baltimore police department, San Diego police department, …show more content…
The fact that most research studies have highlighted the great potential that community policing has on the quality of service within police departments, and transformations in the police force during the community era have focused on community policing does not mean that these departments are implementing the practice properly. Therefore, this objective is meant to explore how community policing practices are being implemented within the police department so as to provide a clear and practical picture of what is really happening in policing departments within the United …show more content…
The department appointed a new deputy chief of community relationships to help organize and implement programs and initiatives that will enable the police department to maintain and advance trust levels with between the community and the police officers at a time when such relationships continue to be strained in many parts of the country. To further enhance community policing and improved collaborations and engagement with the members of the community, the Rochester police department, in coordination with the teen empowerment and the Rochester institute of technology, has developed the Real Talk, Real Walk model to improve police engagement with the youth (Duda, Klofas, & Drake, 2011). The department works closely with teen empowerment to improve the relationship between law enforcement and the youth so as to improve the fragile relationships between the police and the
By
Ryan Montgomery
Dr. V. Batchelor
GEN 411
April 2017
Abstract
Community policing, a model that basically entails a collaboration between police officers and the communities that they serve, has been touted as a promising avenue through which police departments can improve the quality of service and foster better public safety. In response, police departments across the United States took to this new model of policing. The purpose of the present paper is to provide an understanding of community policing in the United States today. After a scan of relevant literature on four police departments; Chicago police department, Baltimore police department, San Diego police department, …show more content…
The fact that most research studies have highlighted the great potential that community policing has on the quality of service within police departments, and transformations in the police force during the community era have focused on community policing does not mean that these departments are implementing the practice properly. Therefore, this objective is meant to explore how community policing practices are being implemented within the police department so as to provide a clear and practical picture of what is really happening in policing departments within the United …show more content…
The department appointed a new deputy chief of community relationships to help organize and implement programs and initiatives that will enable the police department to maintain and advance trust levels with between the community and the police officers at a time when such relationships continue to be strained in many parts of the country. To further enhance community policing and improved collaborations and engagement with the members of the community, the Rochester police department, in coordination with the teen empowerment and the Rochester institute of technology, has developed the Real Talk, Real Walk model to improve police engagement with the youth (Duda, Klofas, & Drake, 2011). The department works closely with teen empowerment to improve the relationship between law enforcement and the youth so as to improve the fragile relationships between the police and the