uses more on prevention of crime than on cleaning it up. Community policing brings new opportunities for success. Less crime, better living conditions and improved social harmony have been achieved through a community approach. If the police are truly interested in controlling crime, there is little question of the proper course to pursue. Community policing holds the key to more effective policing. If the police are to adopt a new strategy, the rank-and-file must perceive some benefit for change. Community policing can fill this need. Community policing not only better serves the community, it also better serves the police (Woods). The skeptic may ask what makes community policing so great. For starters officers speak to neighborhood groups and teach them how to be safer in crime prevention. The officers also participate in business and civic events, consult with special agencies and take part in education programs for school children. Foot, bike and horse patrols bring police closer to the community. Before this people only saw the police from patrol cars and thought the only time they would see an officer is if they called to report a crime. Now community members can see them on a day to day basis and become friends with them.
             Almost all of the groups can benefit from a partnership with a law enforcement agency including home and school organizations, such as PTA, neighborhood associations, tenants' groups and veterans' groups. Also community service clubs such as Lions, Kiwanis, JayCee, and Rotary clubs, religiously affiliated groups, merchants, and taxpayers (BJA). Potential partners that come from among those groups directly affected by the current problem, those who must deal with its aftermath or consequences, and those who must deal with its aftermath or consequences, and those benefit if the problem did not exist. For example, if graffiti is the problem, those directly affected include business and home owners, area residen...