新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

Sustaining security: community policing in the Americas

摘要：

With the assistance of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. State Department, local authorities launched a community-based policing program that emphasizes intelligence-led policing, building capacity among officers in modern patrol and investigation skills, and increasing public engagement in the law enforcement process. A recent report found that more than 300 of the 1,000-plus community policing units around the country are not legally registered and are engaged in the illicit trafficking of drugs, small arms and light weapons.32 Safe Corridors in Ciudad Juárez Ciudad Juárez, in Mexico, is considered one of the most violent cities in the world, due to the presence of drug trafficking cartels.