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5 Just. Rsch. & Pol'y 1 (2003)

handle is hein.journals/jcerhadp5 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 FROM RHETORIC TO REALITY: HOW POLICE OFFICERS VIEW THE IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERALIZED COMMUNITY POLICING Joseph A. Schafer Center for the Study of Crime, Delinquency & Corrections Southern Illinois University Carbondale 0 Abstract Research literature on community policing has focused on its impact on police organi- zations or citizens, especially in jurisdictions where community policing was a special- ized police function. Less is known about how police officers experience the process of implementing community policing, particularly when it is a generalized function affect- ing an entire organization and all of its employees. Using data from a midwestern agency, this study examines the way in which front line officers and supervisors experienced the implementation of a generalized community policing philosophy. Specific attention is given to factors that influenced the attitudes and experiences of those most directly affected by this organizational change. Findings suggest that perceptions and experi- ences were largely a product of the beliefs and attitudes of the individual officers. Impli- cations for police managers and scholars are discussed. An earlier draft of this paper was presented at the March 2002 meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in Anaheim, CA. This research project was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Justice (951JCX0093). Points ofview or opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policy of the National Institute of Justice. This research was further aided through the generosity of the Robert C. Trojanowicz Community Policing Endowed Fund. The author thanks the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments. A special thanks to Timothy S. Bynum and Stephen D. Mastrofski for their many contributions to this paper, although they bear no responsibility for any errors or omissions contained herein. JUSTICE RESEARCH AND POLICY, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 2003 © 2003 Justice Research and Statistics Association

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