"In Philadelphia, a pulsating tavern juke box that has caused irate neighbors to l500 police calls in six months, was moved away from a common wall with the adjoining building. (Author unknown US News) The calls stopped. Though it seems simple, such a move is at the heart of what we know as community-based policing. The movement toward community-based policing has gained momentum in recent years. As police and community leaders search for more effective ways to enhance the sense of public safety and the quality of life in their communities. We have accepted community-based policing in one police department after another, and we are ready now to agree " community-based policing provides hope for the future of law enforcement." We can trace the seed of community-based policing back to Sir Robert Peel, the father of the modern police system, who said, "the police is the public and the public are the police"(Braiden). For different reasons, the police lost sight of that prin!

ciple defining their relationship with the public. Modern historians have said that the reform era in government, which started in the 1900's to combat corruption, along with the move toward the professional imag

be made. There is a distinct difference between community-based policing and other models of policing and that is the way we can measure success, "measures such as crime rates, arrest rates and response times are obsolete (Moore 10)". "A these numbers have little to do with community needs and they only represent serious committed crimes and not the increase of public disorder (or fear) or other so called non priorities"(Kelling pg. 21-21). To know if community-based policing is working, we need to know; are we solving problems instead of reacting to them? Are police officers encouraged to leave their patrol cars and cooperate with the public? Do we have streets free of drug dealers, rowdy teenagers, soliciting prostitutes, predatory criminals, graffiti or drive by shootings? In conclusion community-based policing is striving to build stronger more self-sufficient communities, in which, crime and disorder do not thrive.

Improved? (Washington, DC. Brookings Institution Press Jan 1994 Chapter

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Eck, John E. and William Spelman," Problem solving: Problem oriented policing" in

Magazine: Us News and World report Aug 2 1993. Title: Beyond " Just the facts

By the late 70's the communities had become a diverse pool of nationalities, subcultures, and attitudes. People identified themselves as parts of separate groups and at times the police was not part of what they called "us During this time, a burst of new ideas and changes in the sociopolitical and economic structure began to occur that would eventually, bring about a new kind of police officer. In this changing environment, all social institutions were scrutinized. The police, slow and overburdened, were losing ground rapidly. Police leaders felt the need to reflect on these problems and their overall relationship (their image) with the public. In their attempts to understand what was going wrong, many studies and experiments were sponsored. One of them, the "Kansas Study" proved that, no matter how many police officers are devoted to random patrolling, there is no effect on the actual crime rate (Bureau of justice asst. pg. 13-65). The government had recognized the p!

Public order". The city Journal, Spring 1992, Pg 21-22

Wilson Q. James " Can the bureaucracy be deregulated? " in John Dijulio Sr ed,

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