Personally, I believe that community policing happens when an officer is bonded with many citizens of a community. Officers that show respect for people of the community seem as though they put the extra step into policing. Showing that they want to proactively prevent crime before it happens, makes the officer respectable, in my opinion. Knowing the citizens, almost on a personal level, is easier accomplished in a small town, municipal agency, however, it shows good character and gives cops a better reputation. This type of policing may help the officer while on patrol because they know the town well enough to know if something is out of place. For example, in the video above, the officer on duty stated that he knew whom the car headed
