HOW COMMUNITY POLICING AND TRADITIONAL POLICING AFFECT JUSTICE: A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE USA AND PAKISTAN

Abstract

In this paper, a comparison of justice outcomes from community policing and traditional forms of policing will be discussed, taking the United States and Pakistan as the two case study countries. It offers philosophical backgrounds and detailed analyses of the historical evolution of both policing approaches. The study portrays how community policing leads to a relationship between the police and the people, adding to police responsibility and description, and traditional policing, which results in enforcement and control, can lead to community exclusion. This paper evaluates the efficacy of these policing models with reference to crime fighting as well as social justice based on recorded qualitative information from case studies, surveys, and interviews. These studies show that community policing enhances the relationship between crime and crime-fighting in the two countries. Nevertheless, there are several system constraints, mainly in Pakistan, that hamper the functioning of community policing. The study makes the argument of a blended model that employs the positives of both policing approaches in order to build on justice delivery across different socio-political systems.