Instructional Objectives for this activity: Compare and contrast various community policing models. Community policing is not a new concept, yet many people describe it differently even though the...

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Comparison and Contrasting of Community Policing Models
Community policing has been perceived as national mantra for American police. It has become the
ambition of community policing to address adequately, the community problems, change relationship between
public and the police, improve living conditions of the neighborhoods. At the same time, community policing
means different thing to different individuals. As a result different models of policing have been evolved from
tradition-community-problem oriented-to zero tolerance.
Traditional policing were having main objective to differentiate the police form the public as well as
hold the police more accountable towards the law and politics. This outlook of the model has narrowed down
the law enforcement as well as crime control focus. This model revolves around core objective i.e. serious
crime that was opposed to the maintenance of the community social orders. In addition to this, there main
objective was to deter the crime and apply law. The police under this model are viewed as crime fighter that
were reactive on the public calls for assistance and were not involved in any kind of the social activity i.e. were
socially isolated from the society at large. They had narrow intervention techniques and has more use of the
coercive power to gain control (Bittner 1970).
The community oriented policing model continues to present which stress on the contextual role of the
police. It is the model that stress more focus on greater interactions of the police with community, in order to
resolve the...