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Implementing Community Policing: A Documentation And Assessment Of Organizational Change, Emmajean Williams
Implementing Community Policing: A Documentation And Assessment Of Organizational Change, Emmajean Williams
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Four research questions guided this documentation and assessment of the Portland Police Bureau's conversion to community policing. These questions generated a description of the events and circumstances that created the perceived need for change in the Bureau's role and function; a search for justification for selecting community policing as an alternative policing approach; a comparative analysis of past attempts to implement innovative change of a similar dimension in police organizations; and an assessment of the process by which the Bureau implemented this new policing strategy. The findings indicate that the prominent factors driving this change are first, the limitations of …