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0091-4169/04/9501-0001 THE JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW & CRIMINOLOGY Vol. 95, No. I Copyright © 2004 by Northwestern Utliversity, School of Law Primed in U.S.A. CRIMINAL LAW COMMUNITY POLICING AND YOUTH AS ASSETS JAMES FORMAN, JR. INTRODUCTION Over a decade afiter it was first introduced, community policing remains the most important innovation in American policing today. Called "the most significant era in police organizational change since the introduction ofthe telephone, automobile, and two way radio,"' community policing has been supported by the past three Presidents, Congress, every major police organization, and much ofthe public? A broad cross-section Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. I presented an earlier version of this paper to the law faculties at Columbia University, Fordham University, Georgetown University, New York University, University of Michigan, and Yale University, and am grateful for the comments I received. 1 would like to thank Akhil Amar, Michael Barr, David Cole, Arthur Evenchik, Jeff Fagan, Owen Fiss, Sam Gross, Don Herzog, Dan Kahan, Jerry Kang, Randy Kennedy, Steve Mastrofski, Jim Ryan, Mike Seidman, Reva Siegel, Gerry Spann, Bill Stuntz, Susan Sturm, and Adrien Wing for helpful comments, and Edeanna Johnson-Chebbi for help with the manuscript. Margaret Rodgers, Tamaria Kai Perry, Nicole Devero, Kristen Johnson, and Om Kakani provided first-rate research assistance. ' Edward R. Maguire & William Wells, Community Policing as Communication Reform, in LAW ENFORCEMENT, COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY 33,33 (Howard Giles ed., 2002). ^ Edward R. Maguire & Charles M. Katz, Community Policing, Loose Coupling, and Sensemaking in American Police Agencies, 19 JuST. Q. 503, 504 (2002); see also Wesley G. Skogan, Preface to COMMUNITY POLICING: CAN IT WORK?, at xii (Wesley Skogan ed., 2004) (community policing "is so widely known and popular with the public and city councils that it is hard to fmd a police chief that does not claim that his or her department is on board because they have adopted this or that community-friendly program");WESLEY G. SKOGAN ET AL., O N THE BEAT: POLICE AND COMMUNITY PROBLEM SOLVING 21 (1999) (reporting that by 1997, fifty-four percent of police departments had adopted some type of community 1 2 JAMES FORMAN, JR. [Vol.95 of the legal academy also endorses community policing. Those who seek new ways for inner-city communities to mobilize against disorder and crime support it,̂ as do others whose principal concem is reducing police abuse of minorities.'* In this Article, I will argue both that there is much to be said for community policing and that it has not reached its potential. The flaw, I suggest, is that a critical group—youth and young adults—has largely been left out of the new policing model. Community policing rejects the discredited "warrior" approach to policing, in which inner-city communities were viewed as implacably hostile to the policing enterp.

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