Community policing in the developing world

Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 374 (6571) ◽  
pp. 1046-1047
Author(s):  
Santiago Tobón
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Developing World

scholarly journals Can Community Policing Improve Police-Community Relations in an Authoritarian Regime? Experimental Evidence from Uganda

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Blair ◽  
Guy Grossman ◽  
Anna Wilke
Keyword(s):  
Police Officers ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Core Outcomes ◽  
Scale Field ◽  
Large Scale Field ◽  
Police Community Relations

Throughout the developing world, citizens distrust the police and hesitate to bring crimes to their attention -- a suboptimal equilibrium that makes it difficult for the police to effectively combat crime and violence. Community policing has been touted as one solution to this problem, but evidence on its efficacy in developing country contexts is sparse. We present results from a large-scale field experiment that randomly assigned a home-grown community policing intervention to police stations throughout rural Uganda. Drawing on administrative crime data and close to 4,000 interviews with citizens, police officers, and local authorities, we show that community policing had limited effects on core outcomes such as crime, insecurity, and perceptions of the police. We attribute these findings to a combination of turnover, treatment non-compliance, and resource constraints. Our study draws attention to the limits of community policing's potential to reduce crime and build trust in the developing world.

Community policing: Variations on the western model in the developing world

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Davis ◽  
Nicole Henderson ◽  
Cybele Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Western Model

Community Policing: A Collision Course?

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (15) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Henley Woody
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing

Lessons Learned While Considering Usability In a Developing World Classroom

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Trautman ◽  
Benjamin Trautman ◽  
Judy Kirchner ◽  
Mary Ann Trautman
Keyword(s):  
Developing World ◽  
Lessons Learned
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