Did the Police Car Kill American Communities?
source: http://policewatchmen.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/how-the-police-car-killed-community/
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- Marty_Duffy
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Police patrol up until community policing reform was pretty much entirely reactionary. Police would sit in patrol cars and rapidly respond to calls for service. After responding and doing their thing, they would then leave. Proponents of community-oriented reform (mostly from the criminal justice/criminology research community, though also some police chiefs and politicians) believed that the professional model of policing (highly bureaucratic, centralized, using police cars, little community contact in order to avoid graft) was damaging communities.
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