Community Policing: A Collision Course?

Robert Henley Woody offers a review of Hans Toch and J. Douglas Grant's "Police as Problem Solvers: How Frontline Workers Can Promote Organizational and Community Change" (2005; see record 2004-18407-000). In this second edition, Toch and Grant are dedicated to a rapprochement between the public and police. Offering a history of the community-relations revolution and participatory policing, they argue for a "problem-oriented policing" model. Woody notes that they offer many anecdotes from community policing projects (including excerpts from interviews) and generally finds the book rich in theoretical and practical ideas. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)