Rethinking Community Policing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781593327620)

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.

Author: John M. Ray
ISBN-10: 1593327625
ISBN-13: 9781593327620
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/07/2014
Pages: 222
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d