Instructional Objectives for this activity: Compare and contrast various commu

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 goals and objectives are
ultimately the same. Departments across the United States support
community policing programs and even have community policing embedded in
their mission and vision statements. In the Book:The early development and assessment of initiatives that
ultimately led to community policing occurred with little consistency between
the projects. In the early cases for example flint Newport news Houston
Newark and Baltimore County there was little coordination between the programs
largely because they were developed independently of each other. Conceptually
the programs had similar ideas that researches and administrators wanted tested
to see if they would work. Moreover the projects were evaluated by different
organizations in relative isolation.Most criticism of community policing programs can be viewed
from two perspectives: ( 1) research/ evaluation design and (2) concept. In the
case of the former Greene and Taylor identify several deficiencies in the
tested programs.