Decentralization is another key to community policing . This helps police officers become part of the culture and community. This allows the people to help in investigations and other police work to target the problems of the community. Police are able to be more preventive and efficient in regard to helping with community issues using this strategy, but there is resistance to change from tradition. When police departments decide to become more community oriented many officers are stuck in their old ways and want to do things by the book. Officers may think it 's dangerous to decentralize since officers will get more independent and must rely on their discretion. The fear of decentralization is increased corruption. Community policing may
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Departments want to look good and do what the big police departments do like the NYPD and LAPD so may mimic them and do community policing by this influence. There has been millions spent on research but very little actual ‘rigorous evidence’ on its positive effects stopping crime Weisberg and Eck (2004) (PG 50 IN BOOK). Also there is even less of this evidence on impact of community policing training Committee to Review Research (2004). Many critiques of community policing argue that community policing doesn 't give officer new skills or improve the skills they already have but tries to change the beliefs and important values of the police Haar …show more content…
(1995)(PG 53 IN BOOK. Some people may see this as a positive thing but critiques of community policing may see this as a fault of community policing. Many officers are evaluated on how many criminals they get off the streets and research showing that less arrests are made can be a reason for people to not support community policing. When it comes to serving the public with non-crime fighting services community policing officers and regular officers seem not to have any difference in being nice to the people in the community, dealing with problems that citizens have or doing order maintenance Snipes (2002)PG 54 BOOK). If the community policing trained police aren 't doing any more of these actions they are meant to do, than many people don 't see the point in the training. Snipes(2002) showed that community policing officer had spent less amount of time while interacting with people than
Departments want to look good and do what the big police departments do like the NYPD and LAPD so may mimic them and do community policing by this influence. There has been millions spent on research but very little actual ‘rigorous evidence’ on its positive effects stopping crime Weisberg and Eck (2004) (PG 50 IN BOOK). Also there is even less of this evidence on impact of community policing training Committee to Review Research (2004). Many critiques of community policing argue that community policing doesn 't give officer new skills or improve the skills they already have but tries to change the beliefs and important values of the police Haar …show more content…
(1995)(PG 53 IN BOOK. Some people may see this as a positive thing but critiques of community policing may see this as a fault of community policing. Many officers are evaluated on how many criminals they get off the streets and research showing that less arrests are made can be a reason for people to not support community policing. When it comes to serving the public with non-crime fighting services community policing officers and regular officers seem not to have any difference in being nice to the people in the community, dealing with problems that citizens have or doing order maintenance Snipes (2002)PG 54 BOOK). If the community policing trained police aren 't doing any more of these actions they are meant to do, than many people don 't see the point in the training. Snipes(2002) showed that community policing officer had spent less amount of time while interacting with people than