How to reduce the resistance of implementing community policing

The roots of community policing can be traced to Wilson and Kelling’s “broken windows ” theory. Since then, community policing has been quite popular among politicians, police managers, and citizens. However, community policing leaves some unanswered questions about its impact: Can it be implemented as its plan? Will it be the prevailing paradigm for policing in the future? In fact, some police organizations succeeded and the others failed when they implemented community policing. It depends on whether the police organization is qualified to implement this strategy. This paper tries to explore how to reduce the resistance of implementing community policing. On this paper, the shortcomings of the traditional policing system are introduced first. Second, the obstacles of implementing community policing are addressed. Third, the implementation of community policing to the real world is presented. Last section is the conclusion