Community_Policing

Community Policing The movement toward community policing has gained a lot of strength in recent years. Police and community leaders search for more effective ways to increase the extent of awareness of public safety and the quality of life in their communities. We have accepted community policing in one police department after another, and agree community policing provides hope for the future of law enforcement. We can trace community policing back to Sir Robert Peel, the father of the modern police system, who said, "the police is the public and the public are the police"(Braiden). Community policing is the philosophy of policing supported by a number of principles to find the combination of agreement and accord where people live and work. It is this philosophy that attempts to refocus the essence of policing to a “Law Enforcement philosophy that tries to do two things: first bring police officers and citizens together in neighborhoods and second give the police responsibility for solving problems in the community” (Wilson). Community policing involves three elements; community partnership, problem solving and police culture. This pursuit can take many forms such as preventing and reducing crime and the fear of crime. Community policing encourages community, policing, police, enforcement, crime, problem, law, solving, problems, citizens, people, officers, agencies, public, partnership, officer, neighborhoods, work, live, element, washington, together, take, solve, philosophy, making, lot, helping, fear, dc, works, window, wilson, weekends