Community policing is both a philosophy and an organizational strategy which allows police and community to work closely together in creative ways to solve the problems of crime problems. The essence of community policing is that the levels of crime diminish as quality of life in the community improves. By definition, successful community policing should mean that a Policing agency is always in transition . Methods and Solutions to todays crime problems will not necessarily be the solutions to tomorrows crime problem. Comminity policing must be fully intergrated into all departments and staff.
Police are only one resource to help resolve crime problems.
Other communicty stakeholders should be involved in problem solving i.e. social service agencys, Department of Transportation, Traffic, Nuisance Bureau, Abandon Auto divison, transit authority, school disticts, churches, and parent organizations and others. This is the Hope and Hard Work Model. How do we incorporate the changing demographics in our community into our problem solving methodology. Problem solving has to been adaptable to the culture you are dealing with. African American churches, Asian Community Centers, Russian Community and language barriers must all be approached individually- in order to build trust and support.