Testing the Universality of Community Policing: An Evaluation of Chilean Police Reform
Weiss, Steven Aaron
2011
- Community policing, while traditionally limited to Western democratic states, has recently been implemented in a number of developing countries with various political systems and institutional structures. Included in this new wave of community policing is Chile's one uniformed police body, the Carabineros de Chile. However, the Carabineros were far from the ideal institution to implement the model; ... read morethey were a centralized militaristic body that historically refused to be influenced by civil society. This paper examines the outcome of Chile's community policing experiment through interviews, crime data analysis and qualitative studies. It draws three main conclusions. First, while the community policing programs have created collaborative police-community relationships, in certain low socioeconomic and drug-trafficking areas, hostile police-community relations are the norm. Second, it argues that community policing has failed to increase public security. And third, it concludes that institutional constraints were not an obstacle in implementing the community policing model, supporting the idea that community policing can be implemented in centralized and militaristic police institutions.read less
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