Poor Police–Community Relations

poor police CommunityRelations8 CHAPTER115 IntroductionThere are many reasons why the police have difficult interactions with thecommunities they are supposed to serve and protect. Many of these stemfrom the fact that overall, police departments have contrasting perspectives, poor communications, and concerns about the nature of social control in afree society (Radalet and Carter, 1994, p. 7). The police deal with the community on several levels: individually, as agroup/organization, and as political actors. When it appears that lawenforcement represents the interests of the communities in which theypolice, there is general harmony. When police are out of sync with thesesentiments, there is discontent and dissention. Also, keep in mind that Dif-ferent community groups view the police differently and have varyingnotions of the priorities and objectives of law enforcement and criminal jus-tice (Cordner and Scarborough, 2007: 10).

human relations movement into law enforcement The human relations movement and some astute police executives believed that police had to move beyond simply being responsible for enforcing the law and actually connect with the communities they policed (Radalet and Carter, 1994, p. 23). Some of the initial attempts to increase awareness and ...

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