Community-Based Policing: Law Enforcement For The Twentieth Century

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We can trace the seed of C.B.P.
back to Sir Robert Peel, the father of the modern Police system, who said "the
Police is the public and the public are the Police"(Braiden). For different
reasons, the Police lost sight of that principle defining their relationship
with the public. Modern historians have said that the reform era in government,
which started in the 1900's to combat corruption, along with the move toward the
professional image of police work, resulted in the separation of Police and
Community (Kelling, Moore, pg-5)

Reform style Policing emerged in the 50s and 60s with rotating shifts and
frequent movement of officers, (to prevent corruption). Random patrolling (a
reactive police technique) was also detrimental to the link between Police and
public. The police adopted a policy of centralized control to ensure compliance
with set standards, and to encourage a professional aura of impartiality. All
these policies along with the use of automobiles, telephones, and ...

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(Bureau of justice asst. pg. 13-65)

The government had recognized the problems of crime fighting and the problems of
Police - Community relations, as far back as 1967.The Presidents Commission on
Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice report: The Challenge of crime in
a free society, called"for the creation of a new kind of police officer.@

Almost thirty years later that idea of a "new kind of police officer" has
provided a whole new model for Policing. It is an evolutionary and not
revolutionary philosophy that attempts to refocus the essence of policing to "a
Law Enforcement (philosophy) that tries to do two things: first bring police
officers and citizens together in ...

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