This conviction lays barrier for one’s mental state which generates necessity for a good relationship between the officer and community itself.
Community policing offers had addressed incivilities that undermine from residents’ quality of life.
They must, therefore, engage in building strong partnerships to identify the reasoning being their perception of crime.
This programs offers identification for appropriate complex social interventions able to tackle hindrances of safety.
Community policing gives notice to the important nature of social capital for any effectiveness …show more content…
There exists a similar possibility for the ill-defined measurement of the perception towards community policing since it, “is an academic term applied to law enforcement policies, and still contains broad and somewhat obscure meanings, the respondents may not fully understand what community policing means when they replied that they perceived community policing activities in their neighborhoods” (Roh & Oliver, 2005, p. 680)
Fear of crime is a psychological notion that cannot be straightforwardly expressed in terms of broad questions to quantify their apprehension.
This oversimplification on measurement of the dependent variable proves as a risk to validity of the study and outcomes.
Support for evidence is hooked on accurate measurement of vulnerability variables for the sake of its internal validity.
Descriptive statistics for metric variables and scales became an indicator for testing the effect of perception of community policing upon fear crime …show more content…
A theoretical perspective on community policing was exposed by: thirty years ago the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968) identified the fear of crime as a highly salient issue for the American people. Since then, scholars have conducted a substantial amount of research on fear of crime. The research has focused extensively on what facilitates fear, but more recent research has turned toward identifying potential inhibitors of fear…[with] much attention over the past two decades is community policing. (Roh & Oliver, 2005, p.