Rethinking community policing
By: John M. Ray
Series: Criminal justice: recent scholarship
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC
Published: 2014
Place of publication: El Paso
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781593327620
Subjects: Community policing
Description: Community policing is in decline, threatened with obsolescence by data-driven practices like COMPSTAT and Intelligence-Led Policing. Efficiency driven and aided by technology, these practices are delivering on the crime reduction promises community policing aspired to. Ray argues that much of community policing's difficulties lie in the lack of a clear theoretical foundation informing its community engagement mandate. The uncritical incorporation of pluralism needlessly highlights the differences between police and community groups. Deliberative democratic theory offers a theoretical foundation that may save community policing. Moreover, Ray uses historical sources to suggest the inevitability of community policing in America. --Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-202) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Conflict and conflation: community policing's history and relevant concepts; title: The idea of deliberative democracy : theory and practice; title: The idea of community policing : practice without a theory; title: The long slide : a return to efficiency-oriented policing; title: Reflections; title: References; title: Index.