The most efficient way to reduce crime is to unite the police department with the community it serves. The police alone can not prevent crime and need to summons the assistance of its citizens. Without community policing, much of the police response ends up being reactive instead of proactive. We always look at statistics in a way that shows reactive status, but proactive status can not be figured into account. Some programs of community policing …showed first 75 words of 1137 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1137 total…be conducted by many non-commioned officers within the department. Corporal, Sergants and officers need to keep a keen eye on its subordinants in identifying any problem areas. Field supervision needs to be a common occurrence and needs to be done with direct compliance. Field supervision is shown to keep a possible bad situation becoming worse and gives younger, less experienced officers the opportunity to learn the correct ways at maintaining order in a terrible situation.