ABSTRACT
Permutations of community policing theory and practice have, for over three decades now, been implemented in different contexts and under varied conditions in pursuit of an array of social benefits. But with a few notable exceptions, the longer-term transformations predicted by advocates of such reforms have failed to be realized (Herbert, 2006; Weisburd & Eck, 2004; Mastrofski, 2006). As such, it would seem the criticism that the transformative capacity of community policing functions more effectively at the level of rhetoric than reality would seem to have some validity (Weatheritt, 1988).
