COMMUNITY POLICING DEPARTMENTS
Describe the similarities and differences of four different police agencies with community policing departments. MUST include 5 sources.
The expectation is for you to identify and research 4 real world police departments that have community policing programs. It is best to start your analysis off with a review of the principles of community policing. After you review the four departments then your concluding section should analyze how well those departments have implemented those principles.
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COMMUNITY POLICING DEPARTMENTS
Community policing is a strategy of policing that focuses on police building ties and working very closely with members of the public in a community. (Skogan, et al.1997) In the U.S the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 developed the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) inside the Justice Department to promote community policing. Community policing is a philosophy where a certain police officer is allocated a particular area in a community where the work with citizens to identify problems in their community. There are ten principles that help community policing…………………