Drug Crimes, Community Policing Strategies for

While law enforcement plays an important and leading role in any community’s attempt to control drug crime, addressing the causes and conditions that lead to drug crime requires a multifaceted approach that works to interrupt supply as well as demand. The community policing principles of problem solving and multidisciplinary collaboration are well suited to addressing both. This entry discusses why community policing is an effective philosophy to employ to address drug crime and provides some examples of specific strategies for different types of drug crime that are built on the community policing philosophy.

Weaknesses of a Traditional Approach

A comprehensive approach to reducing drug crime requires thinking about drugs as a product in a marketplace. The marketplace may be illicit, but it functions with many of the ...

  • Loading...
locked icon

Sign in to access this content

Get a 30 day FREE TRIAL

  • Watch videos from a variety of sources bringing classroom topics to life
  • Read modern, diverse business cases
  • Explore hundreds of books and reference titles