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2 Police Q. 5 (1999)

handle is hein.journals/policqurt2 and id is 1 raw text is: COMMUNITY VARIABLES IN COMMUNITY POLICING DAVID E. DUFFEE University at Albany REGINALD FLUELLEN Vera Foundation BRIAN C. RENAUER University at Albany Current thinking on community policing suffers from not specifying a plausi- ble connection between policing structures and priorities and sustained neighborhood improvement. Presently, we have no way of knowing whether community policing helps or harms neighborhood civic efficacy, neighbor- hood participation, and other related processes that sustain neighborhoods. This article identifies seven dimensions that are commonly identified with strong neighborhoods in the urban political sociology, community organiza- tion, and neighborhood social movement literatures. It examines the rele- vance ofcommunity policing to those neighborhood strengthening processes and explores the difficulties in developing appropriate indicators of policing influence on neighborhood development. The big question for community policing is whether changes in the level and nature of social control provided by the police will have negative or pos- itive effects on other forms of social control. In his recent view of police pol- icy options, Bayley (1994, p. 145) poses this question in the following form: This project was supported by grant number 97-IJ-CX-0052 awarded by the National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Points of view in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Jus- tice. The authors wish to thank David Bayley, Todd Swanstrom, and three anonymous reviewers for their comments on earlier drafts of this article. We would also like to thank Chief Ed Davis, Warren Friedman, Rev. H. Ward Greer, Johnnie Johnson, Jr., Dennis Rosenbaum, Marty Tapscott, Ralph B. Taylor, and Phyllis McDonald for their assistance in refining our neighborhood variables. POLICE QUARTERLY Vol. 2 No. 1, March 1999 5-35 @ 2000 Sage Publications, Inc.

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