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A General Theory Of Community Policing, Kam C. Wong

Kam C. Wong

Introduced in the 1970s (in the United States), community policing is a philosophy and strategy to involve and engage the public to fight crime and improve quality of life in their own community.

A cursory review of literature reveals that in spite of its success there is no scientific – logical, predictable, refutable - theory explaining and explicating, predicting and refuting CP practices. This is a first attempt to do so. The theory being proposed: “State police as a social resource theory” (SRT) is a people’s theory of policing. As such it looks at the nature of crime and functions …