Policing in Transition: Creating a Culture of Community Policing

摘要

This report summarizes the state of policing in the Albuquerque Police Department from January of 1996 through August of 1998. It represents a case study of the organizational dynamics within a medium-sized, urban police department seeking to implement community oriented policing and of the views of agency employees' as they adjust to that effort. Through a discussion of police and civilian subcultures in APD, this study addresses the successes and dificulties of a transition period involving major organizational changes. Strategies for optimizing organizational and community strengths are presented for consideration. The research for this report is the product of the APD-UNM Research Partnership, an NIJ-funded collaboration between sworn and civilian law enforcement professionals in the Albuquerque Police Department and researchers at the University of New Mexico's Institute for Social Research. Data for this report were obtained primarily by ethnographic techniques, including over 3,000 hours of participant observation, one-on-one interviewing, and focus groups; in addition, survey and archival data inform the analysis.