Your first task is to post an outline of your Community Policing Proposal to the discussion area so that other students are able to review your plan.
Begin by reviewing the Individual Project from Week 1 to ensure that you understand this final project.
Proposal: Municipality A— Mixed-Race Community
Nowadays, the police are viewed by the public in two perspectives. In one way, they are seen as protectors who the public look up to. They are also seen as ones who can keep the peace and ones who can solve problems. In the other way, police officers are deemed as ones who get paid too much to perform their duties, or they are seen as donut eaters/coffee takers.
For the proposal, we shall work with municipality A which entails a mixed-race community. We shall name it Shashi Municipality. The municipality Communities are forced to turn to community oriented policing due to rampant cases of crimes such robberies, rapes and thefts.
In an article “community policing in post September 11 America” Ben Brown discusses how a nation should start in municipalities with community policing before starting community based implementation of counter-terrorism oriented programs. Brown discuss in detail about the US Patriot Act. He further explains the advanced tools offered to law enforcers after the 9/11 events. He therefore relates this to community policing as he argues that members of the public view police and law enforcement measures to be very intrusive. “…the war on terrorism has taken a toll on the community policing movement. There has been an increase in aggressive security measures such as proactive patrols around national landmarks, an increase in technologically enhanced investigative tactics such as bugging homes, and a decrease in federal funding for community policing efforts. However, there is little evidence to suggest that the decrease in support for community policing or the increased use of aggressive tactics and invasive technology will either reduce the threat of terrorism or be an effective means of controlling crime and disorder” (Brown 242). This quote just about sums up Brown’s article. He really does not think that the September 11th attacks helped the community policing cause. (Brown)
In the article “Project Safe Neighborhoods and Violent Crime Trends in US Cities: Assessing Violent Crime Impact” Timothy Bynum and the other authors talk about a community policing initiative called Project Safe Neighborhoods. The authors here throw a lot of statistics at the reader right in the beginning of the article. They explain the Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative by saying it was stemmed from an anti-gun initiative from the federal government in the early 2000s. (Bynum et al.)
Ocean City Police Department has a young Chief who grew up in Ocean City and who is looking to serve the community. He examines community policing further to see if it truly works more than the “hard-knocks” style of police work. He gives surveys to High Point University students and interviews some of the full-time officers of the Ocean City, NJ police department to get their view on community policing. His plan is to see if the general public, compared to police officers, thinks this initiative is a good thing. The government has spent millions on their C.O.P.P.S. program. The Chief of the Ocean City Police Department thinks that police officers are given an awesome responsibility, however he wants to see if this tactic of community policing makes it easier or harder on police officers and the communities in which they serve.
Works Cited
Brown, Ben. “Community Policing In Post-September 11 America: A Comment On The Concept Of Community-Oriented Counterterrorism.” Police Practice & Research 8.3 (2007): 239-251. Academic Search Complete. Web. 28 January 2017.
Bynum, Timothy et al. “Project Safe Neighborhoods And Violent Crime Trends In US Cities: Assessing Violent Crime Impact.” Journal Of Quantitative Criminology 26.2 (2010): 165-190. Academic Search Complete. Web. 28 January 2017.
Corsianos, Marilyn. “Responding To Officers’ Gendered Experiences Through Community Policing And Improving Police Accountability To Citizens.” Contemporary Justice Review 14.1 (2011): 7-20. Academic Search Complete. Web. 28 January 2017.
