There are three major components in community policing. The first component is community partnership. In the community partnership component, the main goal is to establish and maintain trust between the citizens and the police (Bohm & Haley, 2011). When the citizens trust the police, they are more likely to pass information and report crimes that they witness in the community. The second component of community policing is problem-solving. The police need to devote time and attention discovering the community’s concerns, and they need to recognize the validity of those concerns (Bohm & Haley, 2011). Under the problem-solving component, some community policing advocates recommend a four-step problem-solving process known as SARA (Bohm & Haley,
