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  • Essay / Roles of Community Oriented Policing - 1028

    Crime prevention depends more on the role of the community. When criminal activity occurs in a neighborhood, it would be difficult for police to investigate these crimes if the community mobilized to notify them. It turned out that cities had difficulty getting the community to come forward and get involved with the police. The community and the police have a history of disagreement, citizens may fear that their involvement could lead to more police and generate new conflicts between them (harassment, discriminatory searches, etc.). For example, a study in Chicago found that Hispanics and African Americans were three times more likely to expect the police to be rude and twice as likely to think they were treated unfairly compared to Caucasians. The study concluded that Hispanics (35%), African Americans (25%), and Caucasians (15%) felt that the police were not even concerned about problems within the community. Low-income areas in relation to high-crime areas tend to lack the organizational infrastructure to engage people. The role of the community at this stage is to develop a relationship with the police and attend community meetings to speak out about what is