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Community Policing Paper

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Community policing promotes community members having stake in the community so they can help reduce crime and the elements that create crime in their neighborhood(Stevens, 2001). This prevention of crime led by the community members includes terrorism and all other crime. If community members have social efficacy and a stake in the community it seems they wouldn't want a terrorist attack that's connected to their community because that will bring harm to them. This is where reaching out to Muslim communities is crucial by showing them the police are here to protect and serve them in their homes, at the mosque, at work and any other place they may frequent(Lyons, 2002). The police must show that they aren’t there just to use the people for
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