This is a very challenging time for police–community relations, one characterized by mutual lack of trust between police and citizens. But an important tenet effective community policing. Trust communities can result in better problem solving, fewer legal violations citizens, less frequent use force the police, resistance citizens during arrests, greater willingness to share information, inclin...

In Britain, recent years have seen increasing criticism of police ineffectiveness, high-profileincidents of vigilantism and interest in alternatives to traditional policing. In light of thesetrends, this article first considers nineteenth-century community «self-policing», which orderedsocial relations according to a more diffuse distribution of acceptable violence. Second, itad...

Citizens and immigrant minorities come into contact with the police in various circumstances, either as witnesses, victims of crime, or even as suspects. The present study is an attempt to examine issues concerning racism and discrimination in police/immigrant relations in Finland under this circumstances, which to our knowledge has not received the academic scholastic investigation it deserves...

Eight years after the Lawrence Inquiry, the question of police powers to stop and search people in public places remains at the forefront of debate about police community relations. Police are empowered to stop and search citizens under a wide range of legislative acts and the power is employed daily across Britain. Far from laying the debate to rest, the Lawrence Inquiry prompted new research ...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the competence, career development and public relations performance Sidoarjo Police. approach used for research a qualitative with descriptive case methods, data collection techniques through observation in-depth interviews purposive selection informants using SWOT model analysis. results show that by analyzing three indicators Competence, Career Developm...

Police reform is widely undertaken in developing and postauthoritarian countries. The starting point for analysis of this phenomenon, it is suggested, is the absence of public trust in police that characterizes police–community relations in these countries. Without public trust in police, ‘policing by consent’ is difficult or impossible and public safety suffers. The nature of trust is examined...

Abstract Empirical studies have pointed to the increasing importance of procedural justice as a tool for improving relationship between police and local communities. The mediating role continues be embraced by scholars, practitioners, community members; result, we examine in present study African Americans’ attitudes toward via interpretive lens policing. Using questions found social-psychology...

Increasingly, information technology has pervaded the provision of services by police agencies in the United States. Recent research (Jones & de Guzman, 2010) has illustrated that although most police organizations maintain a web presence, these departments showed significant variations in the quality of their websites and the services they offer through the Internet. Using a sample of 162 larg...