What’s in a Name? Organizational,Environmental, and Cultural Factors on Support for Community Policing in Turkey and the U.S. |
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Authors: | Mahesh K Nalla Kaan Boke |
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Institution: | (1) School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824–1118, USA;(2) Turkish National Police, Michigan State University, Ankara, Turkey |
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Abstract: | Community policing (COP) represents officers’ expectations of police work that revolves around specific order maintenance
chores that take place within the community. It is generally assumed that police officers are cognizant of the community policing
type activities occurring in police organizations where COP is either formally or informally adopted. However, very little
research has been done to examine whether or not police officers in other countries are engaging in similar COP type activities
without the organizational endorsement or official implementation of community policing as it is known in the U.S. and elsewhere.
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, we compare law enforcement officers’ attitudes toward their conceptions of police
work with specific attention to order maintenance and community oriented type police activities in two countries, Turkey (no
formal COP programs) and the U.S. (formal and informal COP programs). Secondly, we examine to what extent police organizational
and environmental factors in these two countries influence officers’ conceptions of community-oriented policing activities.
Findings suggest that, relative to Turkey, U.S. police officers have a favorable disposition toward COP type activities, suggesting
name does matter. However, findings in both countries also suggest that officers’ orientation to police work that is reflective
of the police operational philosophy, and the organizational and environmental factors are better predictors of COP type activities. |
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