Current thinking on community policing suffers from not specifying a plausible connection between policing structures and priorities and sustained neighborhood improvement. Presently, we have no way of knowing whether community policing helps or harms neighborhood civic efficacy, neighborhood participation, and other related processes that sustain neighborhoods. This article identifies seven dimensions that are commonly identified with strong neighborhoods in the urban political sociology, community organiza tion, and neighborhood social movement literatures. It examines the relevance of community policing to those neighborhood strengthening processes and explores the difficulties in developing appropriate indicators of policing influence on neighborhood development.
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