April 28, 2005 | Read Time: 1 minute
Community Policing: The Past, Present, and Future, edited by Lorie Fridell and Mary Ann Wycoff, examines how citizens and police officers can work together to reduce crime and make their neighborhoods more livable. The book, supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, explores ways that neighborhood residents can be encouraged to focus on safety and looks at why some community-policing models succeed while others are hampered by resistance from police officers and lack of interest among local residents. It provides advice for law-enforcement officials on how to meet challenges to community policing, such as a lack of cooperation among departments, and also explores how the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and continued threats to domestic security have made community policing both more important and more difficult to carry out.
Publisher: Police Executive Research Forum, 1120 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Suite 930, Washington, D.C. 20036; (202) 466-7820; fax (202) 466-7826 ; http://www.policeforum.org; 235 pages; available free for download on the publisher’s Web site.
