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Linking confidence in the police with the performance of the police: Community policing can make a difference |
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| Authors: | Ling Ren Liqun Cao Michael Gaffney |
| Affiliation: | a Department of Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182, United States b Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197, United States c Department of Political Science/Criminal Justice Program, P. O. Box 644880, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4880, United States d Division of Governmental Studies and Services, Washington State University, P. O. Box 644870, Pullman, WA 99164-4870, United States |
| Abstract: | The existing literature of community policing was silent on the linkage between police performance and confidence in the police. This study argued that broader measures of police performance were an inevitable result of the shift from the traditional model of police to community policing. Consequently, confidence in the police could be used profitably by police management as one alternative measure of officers’ effectiveness. Data from a northwest city were used to find out the sources of confidence in the police. The results indicated that volunteers involved in community crime prevention programs showed higher confidence in the police and informal collective security bred confidence in the police. Furthermore, victimization and traffic tickets reduced confidence in the police. These results and their implications for police management are discussed within the limitation of data. |
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