Acceptance of community policing among police officers and police administrators

Community policing has evolved from a set of programs to a conceptual framework describing one way that police services can be effectively delivered As this approach has emerged, the level of evaluation of specific programs has been higher than has traditionally been the case. At the present time, program evaluations are becoming more sophisticated and focused. The study reported here was designed to measure the attitudes held by police officers toward community policing with a set of sub-scales designed to measure different dimensions of the attitudinal construct Findings are based on a survey of the population of police officers in Racine, Wisconsin, conducted in 1997.