Measuring Community Building Involving the Police (Final Report)

摘要

Police departments and specific neighborhoods interact in a bewildering variety of ways. Practitioners and researchers assume that the police and forces in the communities in which the police work jointly produce certain public safety outcomes, such as feelings of safety or fear, levels of disorder and crime, and levels of trust and cooperation. These outcomes are jointly produced, whether or not the community and the police are consciously working together. If the police and community groups are cooperative rather than conflicting, and working together in a planned manner, then the joint production might be co-production of public safety outcomes, as is assumed to occur in some forms of community policing.