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Community Policing IS Homeland Security

"For the past decade, community policing reformers have struggled to replace the image of police as warriors battling the bad guys to proactive problem solvers working as partners with the community...The military model depends on covert actions to extract information from the enemy. Community policing instead enlists the open support of average citizens as the department's unpaid eyes and ears in the communities that they know best. It promotes respect for diversity as an antidote to racial profiling that will further alienate the people whose participation the police need." Read more of this article (.pdf) by Drew Diamond, deputy director, Police Executive Research Forum & Bonnie Bucqueroux.

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