Policing in the 21st Century Quotes

“Community Policing is a collaborative partnership between the police and law-abiding citizens designed to prevent crime, arrest offenders, solve neighborhood problems and improve the quality of life in the community.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“Moving away from the rough and tumble orientation of the watchmen, the Peel policing vision required employees committed to dealing with people in a manner that would generate respect for their actions, and that would create a general sense of professionalism among the new policing force.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent upon public approval of police existence, actions, behavior and the ability of the police to secure and maintain public respect. —Sir Robert Peel”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“For many Americans, the image of the police as a protection force diminished significantly during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, when nation-wide television broadcasts showed members of the Chicago Police force brutally clubbing and using tear gas on young white Americans. For many, the scene was reminiscent of the days when police indiscriminately beat African Americans during peaceful protest marches in segregated southern states.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“Although one of the chief goals of Community Policing is to improve the quality of life in a community, its basic objectives are not particularly different from those of traditional policing. They include: •   Reducing crime and victimization •   Reducing the fear of crime •   Preventing crime •   Arresting criminals •   Promoting community security Two other objectives, commonly considered insignificant under the traditional approach of police service delivery, greatly alter the nature of the police function under Community Policing. These are: •   Solving chronic neighborhood problems •   Developing a neighborhood’s capacity to exist within a state of order and peace.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“Simply stated, Community Policing can be viewed as a philosophy that governs how citizen expectations and demands for police services are integrated into the actions of the police to identify and address those conditions that have an adverse effect on the safety and welfare of neighborhood life. To that end, the very essence of Community Policing can be viewed from two important perspectives: 1.   A realization that every community consists of neighborhoods that place different service demands on a police agency. The uniqueness of these demands requires police managers to devise “customized” service responses. Therefore, the term community is viewed from the perspective of “geographical locations.” Given the diversity associated with these different locations, it becomes the department’s responsibility to properly allocate, deploy and manage its resources so that services are adequately and consistently rendered from one location to the next. 2.   Acknowledging the importance of knowing when to form interactive partnerships between the police and the public in order to identify and resolve neighborhood problems of crime and disorder. This perspective defines Community Policing in terms of citizen involvement. It becomes the responsibility of the department to determine when, where and how citizens can work with police officials.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“The same holds true for Community Policing. It is best defined as what the police do when they operate under the Community Policing concept. Conveniently, Community Policing has been given a descriptive definition: Community policing is a collaborative partnership between the police and law-abiding citizens designed to prevent crime, arrest offenders, solve neighborhood problems and improve the quality of life in the community.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“If the question was asked, “What is traditional policing,” there is no short answer that would adequately define it. Rather, traditional policing would have to be defined as the system that police used to deliver their services. That is to say, traditional policing would be defined by the activities performed by the police, how they organized themselves in performing activities such as random preventive patrols, rapid response to calls for service, centralization and specialization.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“Problem-Oriented Policing emerged for a variety of reasons. One was the recognition that the traditional method of delivering police services was not effective. Under the traditional method, the police would receive a call from a citizen, dispatch an officer to the scene of the call, he/she would contact the complaint and make a report of the incident. Chances are the officer would be called on to go to that same location repeatedly. Why was this? Nothing was done to solve the problem. The police, in effect, were merely “incident responders.” When officers were not responding to a call for assistance, they patrolled their assigned beats at random, waiting for the next call. Random patrols rarely resulted in police arriving while a crime was in progress. Rather, random patrol produced random results. On an average, an officer would spend up to 40 percent of his/her time on random preventive patrol.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“It is not courtesy, but civility that our uniform forces should cultivate, while the actual extent of civil rights violations and third degree practices is largely irrelevant so long as they do exist and are popularly believed to be both frequent and general. That belief will persist until the fully equal and lawful enforcement of the law is freely accepted by police as their standard of performance and is consistently applied, year in and year out, as a matter of core discipline and administrative routine. 6”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“The concept of Community Policing did not emerge overnight. And it was not the result of one person’s imagination.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“The participants in the executive sessions also reached consensus in a number of areas. First, there was agreement that the police had come to realize that they could not by themselves solve the complex problems of crime, drugs, fear and urban decay. They realized that they had to work jointly with the community to control crime and that they had to create meaningful partnerships in the community.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“The decade of the 1970s and, to a lesser extent, the 1980s, were the major periods for police research, helping to change policing in America. Cities such as Kansas City, Missouri; San Diego, California; Rochester, New York and New Haven, Connecticut helped to prove that operational research could be undertaken in police departments without disrupting the operations of the agency. Furthermore, the research provided new and valuable insights into police work, often challenging some of the notions held sacred by the police.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“The cumulative results of the policing research during the decade of the 1970s clearly concluded that the time honored practice of random preventive patrol was not productive.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“ Enhance the training necessary to deal with difficult conflict situations, ensuring that officers do not use excessive force to solve problems. 34”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“ Reinforce Robert Peel’s admonition to “keep peace by peaceful means” as the dominant ethic of police work and search for metaphors that reflect lawfulness,”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“ Accountability for the actions of our employees. Recognizing that most police officers are dedicated and hard working in very difficult situations, we will move decisively against those officers who violate the trust they have been given.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“Commission reported that the police needed to develop more effective tactics in handling peaceful and violent demonstrations. It concluded that official behavior frequently determined whether protests remained peaceful or turned violent.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“The Commission called for the establishment of a relationship with community residents and an understanding that many urban residents wanted the police to protect them from crime, and that police tactics had to be acceptable to a majority of the community residents. In this sense, the Commission picked up where the Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice stopped. It recognized the nature of the relationship between urban citizens and the police and the importance of police tactics in defining community confidence in the police.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“ The test of police efficiency is the absence of crime and disorder, not the visible evidence of police action in dealing with them.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“ The police should always direct their actions toward their functions and never appear to usurp the powers of the judiciary by avenging individuals or the state, or authoritatively judging guilt or punishing the guilty.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“ The police must always maintain a relationship with the public that gives validity to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police are members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interest of the community’s welfare.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“ The police should use physical force, to the extent necessary, to secure observance of the law or to restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice, and warning is found to be insufficient to achieve police objectives; and the police should use only the minimum degree of physical force which is necessary on any particular occasion for achieving a police objective.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“ The police seek and preserve public favor, not by catering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolute impartial service to the law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws; by readily offering individual service and friendship to all members of the society without regard to their race or social standing; by readily displaying courtesy and friendly humor; and by readily offering individual sacrifices in protecting and preserving life.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“ The degree of cooperation of the public that can be secured proportionately diminishes the necessity of the use of physical force and compulsion in achieving police objectives.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“ The police must secure the willing cooperation of the public in voluntary observance of the law in order to secure and maintain public respect.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“ The ability of the police to perform their duties is dependent on public approval of police existence, actions, behavior and the ability of the police to secure and maintain public respect.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“The Peelian Principles of Law Enforcement, written in the 19th century, continued to serve the police well into the 21st century: 44 •   The basic mission of police existence is to prevent crime and disorder as an alternative to the repression of crime and disorder by military forces and severe legal punishment.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“In Peel’s view, simply arresting law violators indicated police failure. He believed the police should focus their activities on prevention, with close contact between police and young people early in their lives. This was a broad social view of the police function, reflective of the perception that the prevention of crime was better than waiting until crime occurred.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing

“It is revolutionary in that it represents a fundamental change in how police think about their work and, in some instances, how they go about delivering services. These changes in thinking and in service delivery are reflected in the philosophy commonly referred to as Community Policing.”
― Lee P. Brown, Policing in the 21st Century: Community Policing