In the text book, one of the consequences of the law enforcement is the misperception results in an increased level of public support. I have observed residents who have a great sense of safety and rate their neighborhoods as a higher opinion of Police despite individual characteristics such as race and age. When public support were low at the police dept., we requested the assistance from McNeese State University Criminal Justice Dept. for an unbiased survey on the community policing in Lake Charles. The survey was sent out in the water bills to 30,000 residents. A small numbers were returned, but it was a positive respond on the quality of policing in L.C. One issued from the survey that was changed was police executives started identifying
