Community as a Partner and Stakeholder (From The Managing of Police Organizations, P 256-279, 1989, Paul M Whisenand and Fred Ferguson -- See NCJ-117460)

• NCJ Number: 117462
• Author(s): P M Whisenand; F Ferguson
• Date Published: 1989
• Length: 24 pages
• Sale Source: Prentice Hall
• Publication Type: Training (Aid/Material)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

After emphasizing the importance of community cooperation with the police as a key element of a safe community, this chapter examines the philosophic and operational changes police managers have made in this area since the 1950's.

Abstract

How to gain and retain public cooperation with the police is a complicated police management concern. Financial constraints and laws are restricting law enforcement's ability to respond to community needs. These and other factors have been further compounded by the mass immigration of people who have been raised under different political systems and with different mores and values. To meet these challenges, the police have turned to a variety of community relations programs. Some target specific issues; and others, perhaps most essential now and for the future, embrace community policing. A major focus of this and future police generations must be the building and improving of relationships with the pluralistic public they serve. This begins with police dialogue with citizens through which will evolve a community consciousness that crime is everyone's business and that community problems cannot be solved without a police-community partnership. Discussion questions, 12 notes.