ABSTRACT
Some police managers attracted to problem-oriented policing hedge their bets by combining it with other strategies that enlist community help in dealing with problems, such as community policing, crime reduction partnerships and broken windows policing (or order maintenance). These managers are likely to claim that they are implementing 'community-oriented problem solving' (COPS) or 'problem-solving partnerships', or that their order maintenance activities are a form of community policing. In fact, these strategies are not really compatible and the attempt to combine them can produce a mess.
