Community Policing Versus Team Policing
Ellie Brown Community policing is a strategy that focuses on building strong relationships with the community. They go and talk to the community to find out what struggles or concerns that are existent in their communities. The elements of community policing are the organization of community-based crime prevention, the reorientation of patrol activities to emphasize non-emergency servicing, increase police accountability to local communities, and the decentralization of command. Team policing is a policing approach that designates teams of police officers to communities so that they can learn about their assigned communities and the people in the communities. These two policing strategies seem very alike,
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Both policing is focused on the communities due to the common goal of most police departments on protecting and serving their community. The communities’ happiness and haven are the most important thing for the departments since civilian disapproval could lead to protests and civil unrest. In our recent history, we have seen a lot of civil unrest and what it does to police departments. It leads to people in power resigning, police officers resigning, which then results in the community being unsafe due to the lack of protection. The aspect of similarity between these two types of policing is the community-based strategy. There are a lot of differences between the two. First, community policing involves department wide changes in the organization as well as the delivery of services. On the other hand, the team policing programs were a small group of officers who operated in a radically different manner than the traditional workings of the larger police organizations. Another difference is that team policing are police groups that are assigned by the department. Community policing is each officer choosing to go out and build relationships with the public. These are the main two differences between the two