Community Policing

Community Policing
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Community Policing
Community policing has been transforming steadily since the 1960s following the Civil Rights Movement. The introduction of this model helped expose the weaknesses of the tradition policing model. While the origin of this model is the crisis in police-community relations, numerous other factors have influenced its development over the past decades (Palmiotto & Unnithan, 2010). The social and political upheavals that surrounded the civil rights movement encouraged the introduction of measures of restoring trust and improving relationships between officers and communities. Moreover, community programs were initiated to deal with the issue of underrepresentation of the minority groups in the police departments. In 1967, the Administration of Justice and the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement proposed that augmented responsiveness in police departments to the challenges facing a promptly changing society.
Structuring police operations by geographic boundaries efficiently established closer police-community relationships. Further, greater decision-making authority was granted to line officers to increase their responsiveness to neighborhood issues. However, these innovative ideas were faced with intense opposition from managers in police departments (Cordner, 2014). Therefore, successful team implementation suffered severely hampering, and the departments soon abandoned team policing…