Evaluating community policing: quality police service and fear of crime

1997 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Steven Dietz
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Police Service

No Place for the Mom-and-Pops

2019 ◽  
pp. 148-172
Author(s):  
Luis Daniel Gascón ◽  
Aaron Roussell
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Convenience Store ◽  
Business Growth ◽  
Police Service ◽  
Moral Boundaries ◽  
Primary Unit

This chapter extends from the previous, further examining police service delivery with respect to Lakeside’s business community. The authors open with a discussion of the Lakeside Boosters, a police charity where corporations can sponsor CPAB-led events and programs or provide general use funds. The Business Car is the primary unit responsible for all business relations, however SLOs regularly patrol these establishments in the course of their patrol routines. The chapter follows SLO Phil Hackett as he regulates the racial and moral boundaries of local liquor store patrons and sees SLO Marge Sierra advocate for the deservingness of a new 7-Eleven convenience store in the neighborhood, despite public resistance, because its corporate ties ensure elevated security and regulation. She contrasts this store with the area’s Black-owned businesses, whose continuing closures signal a positive shift for the maintenance of social order. The Lakeside Division’s relationship with local businesses, as the authors found, was not unusual. Rather, this is a normative institutional alignment. Coupling community policing with LA’s post-1992 urban redevelopment scheme, Rebuild Los Angeles, ensures that divisions can support local enforcement strategies in a time of declining city budgets, while also maintaining a hospitable environment for business growth.

scholarly journals POLICING POWERS, POLITICS, PRAGMATISM AND THE PROVINCES: Revitalising policing oversight in the Western Cape

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Bruce
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Police Service ◽  
Political Interference ◽  
Draft Bill ◽  
Government Initiative ◽  
The Relationship

The draft Western Cape Community Safety Bill, introduced in the provincial legislature in February 2012, is part of a broader provincial government initiative to tackle issues of safety in the province. The Bill sets out to concretise the powers allocated to provincial governments by the Constitution. Specific provisions reflect the wish to give effect to Section 206(1) of the Constitution in terms of which provinces are to be consulted in the formulation of national policing policy. But the main focus of the Bill is on provincial policing oversight powers. In line with the Civilian Secretariat for Police Service Act, the Bill aims to formalise the role of the provincial Department of Community Safety as distinct from the provincial secretariat. The Bill provides for inspections to be carried out at police stations by Community Policing Forums (CPF). This aspect of the initiative has the potential to redefine the relationship between CPFs and the police. It is also envisaged that a provincial ombud’s office will be created, in line with provisions of the Constitution, authorising provinces to investigate complaints against police. The Bill is of interest as it provides a model for fuller engagement by provincial governments in policing matters. At the same time the introduction of the draft Bill raises questions about potential political interference that the Bill does not address.

scholarly journals Community Policing: An approach for Countering Youth Radicalization in Eastleigh Area of Nairobi County

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-99
Author(s):  
Mike Kiplagat Chepkong’a
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Warning System ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Awareness Campaign ◽  
Public Awareness Campaign ◽  
Equal Effectiveness

Community policing approaches have been used successfully to prevent crime, reduce the fear of crime, and improve public safety. A raging debate, however, is emerging as to whether this approach can be used with equal effectiveness in the prevention of terrorism. Over the last sixteen years, Kenya has tried several approaches to “the war against terrorism.” However, none of the approaches has succeeded in stamping out terrorism. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to find out ways in which the philosophy of community policing could be modelled to fit a citizen based-counter terrorism strategy. The study established that community policing principles can be used to create sustainable partnerships between law enforcement agencies and residents, thus facilitating the identification of root causes of youth radicalization. Training of police officers on community policing principles and trends in youth radicalization was strongly recommended. Further, police officers should invest more in trust-building initiatives in establishing a joint early warning system with the local communities they serve. The study further recommends an intensive public awareness campaign on the nature, indicators, and symptoms of youth radicalization within Eastleigh and the country at large.

Community Policing and Fear of Crime

2020 ◽  
pp. 267-308
Author(s):  
Victor E. Kappeler ◽  
Larry K. Gaines ◽  
Brian P. Schaefer
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Fear Of Crime

Taking Charge

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-129
Author(s):  
Nicholas Rush Smith
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
African State ◽  
The State ◽  
The South ◽  
State Authority ◽  
Taking Charge ◽  
Legal Procedures ◽  
Do So

Vigilantism is often understood as a substitute for state authority. If that is the case, why does the South African state encourage citizen crime-fighting, given risks that patrollers might resort to illegal violence? This chapter shows that the state promotes citizen crime-fighting to combat feelings of disempowerment produced by the fear of crime. It does so by examining two moments in a community policing program in Sebokeng. The first was a public spectacle relaunching the program where government ministers exhorted citizens to “take charge” of crime while suggesting citizens may need to occasionally violate legal procedures to do so. The second was a night of patrolling with a community policing group where initial fidelity to legal procedures gave way to targeting the homes of specific alleged criminals. The chapter shows how patrollers sometimes experience their strongest feelings of agency as they violated the state’s procedural protections for suspects.

The Impact of Citizen Perceptions of Community Policing on Fear of Crime: Findings from Twelve Cities

2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Scheider ◽  
Tawandra Rowell ◽  
Veh Bezdikian
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Citizen Perceptions ◽  
The Impact

Institutional incentives and community policing

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Tate Fegley
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Fear Of Crime ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Economic Calculation ◽  
Police Departments ◽  
Community Oriented Policing ◽  
Institutional Differences ◽  
American Police ◽  
Practice Community

Abstract Most American police departments claim to practice community-oriented policing (COP). The stated goals are to build partnerships between the police and the community, maintain order and quality of life, and solve problems that contribute to crime and fear of crime. However, researchers have noted how most departments attempting to implement COP have fallen short in successfully adopting the recommended reforms. This paper argues that the institutional setting in which American public policing operates leads to this result. By contrast, the institutional features of private security make its operation more conducive to achieving the goals of COP. These institutional differences include whether economic calculation is possible, the domain that is policed, and which rules are enforced.

scholarly journals TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN? Sector policing and community policing forums

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Millicent Maroga
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The South ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Police Service ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
South African Police Service ◽  
South African Police ◽  
Two Sides

In its efforts to address crime the South African Police Service is increasingly focused on the implementation of sector policing. This is a strategy that calls for a more focused approach to policing at the local level, and includes the establishment of sector policing forums. Indeed, sector policing could be seen as a way of enhancing community policing. One of the key challenges is to ensure that these new police-community based structures do not experience the same shortcomings as community policing forums. This article will describe sector policing and consider some of the challenges to its effective implementation.

scholarly journals The stalemate of community policing in South Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
Shaka Yesufu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Police Service ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Past ◽  
Apartheid Regime

With the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa, new police service was needed to promote the transition to democracy. Community policing was introduced from the United Kingdom in the 1990s into South Africa as a channel to heal the wounds and injustices of the past. Over Twenty-five years down the road, community policing in South Africa has made little or no impact on the majority of South Africans who will openly admit that they do not attend their local community forums, because they simply do not trust the police because of its oppressive past. It is a widely held view by several South Africans that the Police Service simply cannot change overnight from being a very brutal force to become the protectors of citizen’s human rights. This research is a qualitative study; whereby an extensive literature review was carried, exploring the issues and concepts related to community policing. The findings are that community policing has achieved its desired results. All citizens must go back to the drawing board again to bring community policing back on track for the benefit of all citizens to whom the police serve and protect. The author argues that the bitterness and divisions of the past must put be put to one side and that all citizens must co-create a country, where all South Africans are proudly part of and allowed to make their contributions.

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