Community policing is a philosophy that endorses organizational strategies, which support the orderly use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques, to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime (Community Policing Defined, n.d.).

Customarily, police organizations have responded to crime after it takes place and, therefore, are planned to support routine patrol, rapid response to calls for service, arrests, and follow-up investigation. Community policing calls for a more strategic and thoughtful integration of these aspects of police business into an overall broader police mission focused on the proactive prevention of crime and disorder (The Role of Traditional Policing in Community Policing, 2008).

Community policing advocates for the strategic application of routine patrol that is conducted with an eye toward preferred outcomes. Rather than just conducting routine patrol because that is how it has always done it, routine patrol...
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