Systems Approach to Crime and Drug Prevention: A Path to Community Policing. Bulletin: Bureau of Justice Assistance, Volume I, Issue 2, September 1993

摘要

As successful demonstration agencies for the Systems Approach to Crime and Drug Prevention grants, the police departments in both Knoxville and Tucson have welcomed their responsibility to share information with law enforcement agencies of other jurisdictions through documentation and through informal technical assistance. It should be noted that the Knoxville police, having already developed explicit reciprocal agreements with other agencies, used both the term and the concept systems approach before BJA adopted them for the national demonstration. During the BJA demonstration program in Knoxville, its program director was promoted to chief of police, thereby adding impetus to cooperative efforts both within and beyond the police department. Tucson developed its systems approach, on the other hand, from a background of long commitment, both by its chief and as a department, to the principle of community policing. One message both departments have sounded consistently, however, is that the ideas of crime prevention and community partnership are related and that both ideas need to be woven into all aspects and activities of law enforcement. The goal is to change the entire culture of their law enforcement agencies from a traditional role to one of community policing.