...William Pelfrey; Steven Keener Purpose This research study evaluates an innovative community-oriented policing program, designed to enhance officer accountability, thereby informing the scholarly community and agency decision-makers. Design/methodology/approach A multi-method approach...

...Travis Carter; Scott E. Wolfe; Yongjae Nam; Spencer G. Lawson Purpose This study aims to evaluate a promising community-oriented policing strategy called “front porch roll call” (FPRC), which involves conducting roll calls in public forums. Design/methodology/approach A mixed methods approach...

... Human trafficking Police use of social media Police-citizen interactions Police web presence Community-oriented policing Twitter Human trafficking is a persistent issue that continues to affect countries across the globe. Although the actual estimate of these crimes is unknown (e.g. Finkelhor...

... Organizational theory Community-oriented policing Police legitimacy Content analysis The occupational directive of policing involves what has been described as an impossible mandate. Society expects the police to satisfactorily meet all of their law enforcement demands, while protecting and respecting...

..., procedures and training (Peak et al., 2008). Community-oriented policing Policing Emergency preparedness Community policing Campus policing During an era of policing attempting to balance emergency management and community policing, scholars have argued that emergency management...

...Molly Miranda McCarthy; Louise E. Porter; Michael Townsley; Geoffrey P. Alpert Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether community-oriented policing (COP) influences rates of police use of force across communities, and whether the impact of COP varies according to the level...

... can tackle crime alone. Without input from residents, targeted policing can devolve into zero tolerance campaigns that worsen community relations (Rosenbaum, 2006 ; Tonry, 2011). Community-oriented policing Discretion Citizen satisfaction Implementation In 2012, the Canton, Ohio...

... Community-oriented policing Problem-oriented policing Hot spots Youth Program evaluation Place-based policing Community-oriented policing (COP) is a popular law enforcement philosophy that emphasizes community outreach and collaboration to identify and respond to crime (e.g. Mastrofski et...

... the influence of these measures on sheriff deputies’ organizational commitment during their organization’s shift to community-oriented policing. Findings Our results, while similar to those of Johnson (2015), revealed some unique findings. For example, in the current analyses, several organizational...

... Community-oriented policing Integrity While originally developed for use in the USA, the Klockars et al. approach has been utilized in international studies of police misconduct as well. With congregation of national police forces and training academies, it becomes much easier to generate...

... previous studies (Lai and Zhao, 2010 ; Ren et al., 2006). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Citizen participation Community-oriented policing Public perceptions Diffused support Previous studies on volunteer work in policing were likely to focus on the similarities...

... crime prevention programs, it was 58 percent for campuses as compared to 38 percent for cities. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Training Innovation Community-oriented policing Education Over the last six decades, college campuses have grown in both physical size...

... study and reference for future studies. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Community-oriented policing Community relations Public perceptions Citizen satisfaction The purpose of this research is to address this gap in the literature. We begin by surveying the literature...

... member as a crime victim reduces the odds of being satisfied with police by approximately 34 percent” (Wu et al., 2009, p. 143). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 India Community-oriented policing Police public dynamics Public perception of police Community policing...

... – into a cohesive theoretical framework through the integration of the new governance of public administration, systems theory and community development theory. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reviews the existing literature of community-oriented policing (COP) and the concepts of new governance...

... Leadership Community-oriented policing This survey was sent to all 254 sheriff's offices and a random sample of 262 of the 1,055 police departments in Texas. A cover letter addressed to the head of the agency was sent explaining the nature of the survey and the mailings were addressed to the respective...

...). King and Dunn (2004) commented on the low‐visibility police practice of “dumping,” or transporting troublesome persons across jurisdictions. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Broken‐windows Interviews Management Implementation Administrators Community‐oriented policing One...