Exposing Community Policing And How To Implement Real Community Policing

      The only way to support legions of people in do nothing positions and for someone to profit is to make something more complicated than it is really. Community policing is one of those things.
       The bread and butter of what police work should be is not sufficient to support the employment of patronage workers, layers upon layers of supervisors, administrators, and all the industries that make fortunes from police departments. And let us not forget the many lawyers that have found it lucrative to sue police departments and police, no matter how frivolous and unfounded the lawsuits might be.
      Many years ago, cops walked beats. This was the truest form of community policing. Cops on the ground, in a neighborhood, did more community policing and real police work than all the convoluted, paper laden academia produced nonsense now called community policing.
      Technology is not policing, nor is it community policing. Technology is an aid to police work, and nothing more.
       Police work needs to move back to the place from where it should never have left. The bread and butter of police work is patrol, with cops on the ground. This has to be multi layered, which it ceased to be decades ago. This means police patrol by car, while others patrol on foot, and at times some patrol on bicycle.
      Having cops assigned to a neighborhood to patrol on foot requires a whole new commitment on the part of police departments and officers. This means that police get assigned to a neighborhood that they will patrol every day on foot day when on duty. Cops riding around in squad cars never get to know a neighborhood and its people as can cops on the ground. Cops in squad cars are busy answering calls and handling other assignments.
        Cops walking beats become part of the community. They serve as positive role models. They interact with the public far more than an officer in a squad car. They provide a deterrent. They learn who are the criminals, and after a while, even the criminals and cops walking the beat come to understandings that work in favor of law abiding people. The cop on the ground comes to know the people and neighborhood in a way that is advantageous for all.
        All the technology in the world and fancy programs cannot achieve what a cop on the ground walking a beat can.
        Police departments might say they do not have the manpower. They do, once they rid themselves of  the paper pushing worthless jobs, layers upon layers of unnecessary administrators and supervisors, upper echelon brass and their sycophants, and all the diversions and excuses for not doing real police work. Including childish numbers games some departments engage in.
        Cops walking beats in neighborhoods also have to be committed. Walking a beat cannot be an excuse to hide and do nothing. If a police department is completely lacking a work ethic so that the aforementioned cannot be achieved, then shut it down and start from scratch.
         All of the above requires much more detail.
         But if no one is interested in real reform, if it is easier to complain and never do anything, then surely there will be no change for the better. Hopefully this will not be the case.