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Community Policing Community policing has become a sign

Community policing has become a significant area of focus in police work in recent years as urban and suburban departments have fought increasing levels of crime. The effect of community policing has largely been positive, with crime rates reduced substantially in some areas (New York City, for example) and with positive reactions from both law enforcement agencies and the public at large. Despite the progress that has been made, critics charge the community policing is a vague concept that can encompass everything from merely hiring additional officers to having officers take a proactive role in preventing crime rather than simply reacting to it. Some have proposed that total quality management (TQM), a tool used in industry, can be applied to law enforcement in general, and to community policing in particular. This research examines how TQM might be implemented in a community policing situation.

Community policing is a general term used to describe a variety of activities and strategies which vary from community to community. In general, community policing refers to law enforcement agencies taking a proactive role in preventing crime rather than their traditional reactive role of responding to crime. For some agencies, this has meant adding additional police officers to the payroll using funds available from federal community policing program, such as the Community Oriented Policing Service program. In addition to hiring more sworn personnel, funds from this program can also be used to purchase additional equipment, hire and train civilian personnel, or used to pay overtime to existing personnel in order to enable departments to have a higher profile on the streets (Quist, 1997, p. 5).

Some cities, such as Seattle, have combined community policing efforts with public matching funds to bring together members of the community with police officers. In Seattle, matching funds were used to open a neighborhood police station ...

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