Title: Constitutional Policing vs. Community Policing
Headings: Constitutional Policing vs. Community Policing
Constitutional Policing vs. Community Policing
Article highlights
What Is Constitutional Policing?
What Is Community Policing?
Perhaps most importantly, a community-policing philosophy emphasizes police relationships within the community.
The Intersection of Constitutional and Community Policing
Constitutional policing lays the groundwork for community policing.
Encouraging constitutional and community policing practices in your department
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Content: From there, officers can engage the community in more meaningful ways, both improving their reputation and getting help when needed. Encouraging constitutional and community policing practices in your department
The PERF report highlights a few key ways to support constitutional policing while building community relations: Openness about how race issues impact policing in the community – including holding community forums and similar events. Police support for peaceful, legal protests. Fostering transparency and relationships between community members and police – possibly through partnerships, such as having civilian instructors get involved in training. Training officers in how they can interact with citizens in the most effective ways possible. The Police Executive Research Forum isn’t the only group embracing the relationship between community and constitutional policing. The Atlanta Police Department also released materials detailing the ways that constitutional policing best practices can support community policing goals. Former Atlanta Police Chief George Turner suggests that law enforcement agencies can build public trust through actions such as: Providing transparent and timely information about the investigation process when a civilian files a complaint against an officer.