Community Policing In Crime Reduction

Running Head: THE COMMUNITY POLICING PROJECTThe Community Policing ProjectStudent’s NameInstructorDateAbstractCommunity policing is now part and parcel of modern-day policing. It only takes different meanings and forms of implementation in relation to where it is being implemented. The survival and success of community policing could then be dwelt a blow in the wake of increase in criminal activities which may call for reverting to the more traditional model of policing. Although a consensus may not be achieved as to the evolution of community policing, there is one main thing that is very clear: the 21st century challenges of resource shortages, violence, social and economic injustices, intercultural conflict as well as substance abuse calls for creative and broad thinking on the role of police and community in policing. In order to start injecting fresh sigh of relieve in regard to a new vision and mission of advancing and sustaining positive change in the community, policing should then be examined in the context of the definition of crime and how it relates to justice system that in a away frustrates victims, and ending up in alienating the entire community. Modern policy developments in