Traditional Community Policing

Community policing has been an innovative policing philosophy that worth to be examined deeply. This kind of organizational strategies is seen to be different from the traditional policing at various aspects, since the targets and approaches of community policing is nearly opposite to those of traditional policing. Yet, both models of policing are sharing the same goal, which is to maintain social order by reduce the harm brought by crime in the society. Community policing achieves such aim by emphasis on crime prevention, whereas traditional policing stresses on fighting crime. This differs the way of measuring how effective of these two models. The efficiency of traditional policing can simply be rely on criminal statistics, like detection …show more content…
First, a strong bond and partnership must exist between the police and the community. Second, the police should serve the community, rather than control the citizens within the community. Police officers of all rank should all have a feeling as if they are part of the community as well instead of being a controller (Edwards, 2011, 124). Third, the police will work proactively to deal with the crime by solving any problems identified through communication with the community. Literally and simply, the policing should be done “with” and “for” the community, rather than “of “ it (Newburn, 2003, …show more content…
As the ultimate goal of community policing is to prevent crime from happening, a study of decreased crime rate may help to reflect how successful community policing is. Yet, crime statistics is can only provide a limited picture, as dark figures always exist. Moreover, the statistics cannot reflect the result of good liaison between police and community.

There are over 500 researches on community policing reported by Miller and Hess (2005, 485). Some practices were considered as “works”, like directed patrols in street corners of criminal hot spots, incorporation of probation officers and suspects of domestic assault and late-night recreation programs for youth, etc. These measures are really targeted into the community and aimed at solving social problems that may eventually lead to a cause of crime. On the other hand, what were considered as “doesn’t work” are, neighborhood block watch, arrests of juvenile of minor offenses and arrests of unemployed suspects of domestic assault, etc. It needed to be clarified that community policing should not be done with no clear crime and that means, community policing is not