Measuring Police-Community Coproduction: The Utility of Community Policing Case Studies

Abstract

Case studies may represent a valuable source of data for testing the theoretical propositions related to community policing. The utility of this approach depends on the extent to which case studies assess coproduction interactions between police and residents. This study utilizes a measurement protocol to systematically extract these interactions from case studies. After assessing the reliability and the validity of these measures, the authors conclude that there is some utility in using case studies for this purpose. Case studies are a better source of information about the presence or absence of certain coproduction interactions and about the dispersion of these interactions over people, places, and organizations. Case studies are a weaker source of information about the temporal fluctuations in coproduction. The strengths and limitations of this approach are discussed.

Defining “Policeability”

“…Community policing has formed part of the vanguard of that shift. Coproduction is a cornerstone of community policing, allowing the public to help shape the actions of police (Scott et al 2003;Skolnick and Bayley 1988). In this paper, we have described a major element of community-police coproduction as the process of producing "policeability," or police action on questions of "disorder" and "quality of life" (Goldstein 1987) derived from residents.…”

“…This paper has taken a step forward in addressing the problematic identified by the Scott, Renauer, and Duffee team (Renauer et al 2003;Scott et al 2003). In connecting Goffman to Foucault through Hacking, we have sketched a framework for understanding coproduction as a dynamic process in which on-the-ground interactions feed into a larger discourse of policeability.…”

“…Less a specific strategy than an organizational process for producing strategies, community policing devolves some level of control over crime fighting activities to the community (Herbert 2005). In a definitive statement of the concept, Jerome Skolnick and David Bayley (1988) argue that "community policing should be said to exist only when new programs are implemented that raise the level of public participation in the maintenance of public order" (p. 5), while Jason Scott, David Duffee, and Brian Renauer (2003) suggest that it should form the basis for the "coproduction of social order" (p. 411) Community policing literature argues over coproduction's contents, efficacy, and whether it increases or decreases social capital (Duffee, Fluellen, and Renauer 1999;Pino 2001;Scott 2002), yet a current of resistance to the idea itself has endured for some time (see anticipations in Bayley 1991;Manning 1997;Weatheritt 1991). More recently, Steve Herbert (2005) refers to the reliance on community coproduction as a "trapdoor": the community is unable to bear the weight of this responsibility, and the trapdoor swings open underneath them.…”

Pravni ukrepi občin v času razglašene epidemije covida-19 z vidika varnosti v lokalnih skupnostih

“…citizen participation) (Arnstein, 1969;Buren, 2007;Colquhoun, 2004;Marschall, 2004), koprodukcija prebivalcev (ang. citizen coproduction) (Fenwick, 2012;Innes in Roberts, 2008;Scott, Duffee in Renauer, 2003), vključevanje skupnosti/prebivalcev (ang. community/citizen involvement) (Grinc, 1994;Skogan in Hartnett, 1997), angažiranje skupnosti (ang.…”

Crossing lines together: how and why citizens participate in the police domain

“…Research on citizens' willingness to participate in general have been conducted (Kerley & Benson, 2000;Scott, Duffee, & Renauer, 2003;Wehrman & De Angelis, 2011), but as far as we know, the effects of witness statements in crime shows specifically and the relation with citizens' willingness to report have received strikingly little attention from researchers. Furthermore, in light of the fact that witnessing crime often invokes strong moral emotions, it is equally surprising that the extent to which the perceived moral wrongness associated with different types of crimes (e.g., a bike theft vs. a distraction burglary) influences the willingness to report have not been thoroughly studied either.…”