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Is Community-led Policing in our Future?
In the future-leaning concept of community-led policing, there is no need for civilian oversight of the police, as the community and the police share responsibility for the regular decision-making process regarding crime control on the strategic level, as well as the joint examination of those things for which civilian oversight is regularly sought - citizen complaints and questionable uses of force.
The Unintended Consequences of Reimagining Policing
“Reimagining policing” is one version of police reform. In this model, first responders will not be the police to incidents involving mental illness, homelessness or substance abuse unless they are violent. Despite calls to re-think policing, police officers will continue to be called upon for non-emergency situations in the foreseeable future. Will they bring the hardened tools of a warrior when what is needed are the softened tools of a peacekeeper? Is this a unintended consequence of reimagining policing?