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INTRODUCTION Numerous police agencies in the United States report involvement in community policing strategies (Maguire, Kuhns, Uchida, & Cox, 1997; Maguire & Mastrofski, 2000; Zhao, Lovrich, & Th urman, 1999; Zhao, Th urman, & Lovrich, 1995). Th e 1999 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics survey, based on a representative sample of 13,000 local police departments, estimates that more than 90 percent of departments serving 25,000 or more residents had some type of community policing plan in operation (Hickman & Reaves, 1999). Sixty-four percent of local police departments report having full-time community policing offi cers (Hickman & Reaves, 1999). No one doubts there is a proliferation of police departments that claim to do community policing. Th e term community policing has evolved into a household phrase recognized by many (Maguire & Mastrofski, 2000). |
