Topic > The importance of community policing - 864

and abroad. This strategy follows research that somewhat chronic criminals commit the most crime and will be punished to stop the crime. This strategy can be used with crackdowns or specific targeting of groups of people and/or gangs. This can be used by offering those who follow the rules social services and job opportunities, which is where community policing could step in and serve the community after criminal activity has been targeted. This can show that the police are here to help and fight crime and that the community's trust will not be lost after the crackdown. Pulling the Levers gets positive feedback for its ability to use community service providers to manage problems in the community (Winship and Berrien, 1999). This policing model clearly shows that it works for gun homicides ( McGarrell and Chermak, 2003 ). This can work well with community policing, as community members would be able to point out groups that need to be targeted for intervention. Pulling the levers is a special variant of using the main elements of problem-oriented policing (Eck and Spelman 1987, Goldstein 1990), in which I discussed how problem-oriented policing could be used in cooperation with community policing. Community policing has encountered challenges in communities with high gang activity, where the use of leverage has been successful in preventing gang violence (decker