Community Policing: Highly Abuse Theme In Police Management

Community policing is perhaps the most obscured and frequently abused theme in police management during this decade. In the past few years the concept of community policing has become more prevalent in society. Many observers of the police have often suggested that police and policing are different in different places and that a community gets the kind of policing they want. I find this to be true to the extent that it is up to the community to decide how they will be potentially protected as well as served by the police. Laura Huey (2007) states that the more exclusive the culture towards those who are deemed outcasts or lack morality, the harsher the style of policing that is directed at those individuals or groups. For instance, the community can influence the way they are policed based on their collective attitudes toward the police as well as how they interact with police on an individual level. This in turn shapes the policies and practices implemented by a

In other words, police take action based on the communities’ decision because the burden ultimately rests on the individual members of the community. For example, individual members of the community are obligated to inform the police about disturbances, incidents, and disruptions of peace within a community. This potentially effects the livability as well as the standard of living in neighborhoods, specific areas, or the community as a whole. Moreover, if a neighborhood is known for gang or drug activity it will most likely experience an aggressive form of policing than most. With that said, the police are more likely to remain vigilant in these particular areas especially if the individual community members ae not cooperating and working with them to control the crime that is going on in their particular