A policing philosophy and organizational strategy in which law enforcement works cooperatively with community groups and residents to identify and address the conditions that produce crime and disorder, rather than relying only on reactive patrol and enforcement. In the United States the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act established the federal Office of Community Oriented Policing Services to fund it. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Community policing and broken windows policing are frequently paired in policing-strategy literature as complementary order-maintenance approaches.
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Egon Bittner's influential account of policing as defined by its capacity to use non-negotiable coercive force underlies the modern scholarly understanding of the police role that community and problem-oriented policing reforms responded to.
Herman Goldstein originated problem-oriented policing in his 1979 essay "Improving Policing: A Problem-Oriented Approach," a direct and widely credited building block of modern community policing strategy.
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Community policing is a philosophy and organizational strategy whereby law enforcement cooperates with community groups and citizens in producing safety and security.
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