As a growing presence of federal law enforcement comes to our towns and cities and looms in our future, let’s not forget what we who led local police for the last 50 years have worked for and developed, It’s in the literature and called “Community Oriented Policing.”
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING is a collaborative, police-community model of public safety where residents determine the legitimacy of police tactics. It prioritizes decentralized neighborhood problem-solving, the protection of human rights, and the foundational principle that “the police are the public and the public are the police;” working together, not apart from.
It is how the laws of a free. diverse, constitutional and democratic society should be enforced with an emphasis on prevention rather than enforcement.
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 