What is Community-Driven Crime Control
Community-Driven Crime Control (CDCC) is a different way of thinking about crime fighting; different than
problem-oriented policing (POP), community-oriented policing (COP), and certainly set apart from traditional
policing (TP).
What is the dramatic difference from traditional policing and community-orienetd approaches?
(1) It looks at crime as problems;
(2) It looks at problems from the grass-roots and personal perspective;
(3) It looks at police as one of the many social resources;
(4) It puts the community in control of solving problems;
(5) It solves problems with access to information and usable knowledge.
CDCC v. Traditional Policing
How does Community-Driven Crime Control differ from traditional policing or its variants: community-oriented policing, problem-oriented policing? Answer: The key differentiator is, "Who's in the driver's seat?" Community-driven explicitly requires that citizens have control over what local government does to and for their community. With regard to the police, anything short of community-driven is at best community-oriented or problem-oriented. The term "oriented" itself infers that citizens have input, but little or no control over resources or outcomes, because there has been no transfer of responsibility or accountability which remains with the police.
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Traditional Crime Control |
Community Driven Crime Control |
| Who is in charge? |
City hall - Police |
Community-level: neighborhooods, citizens |
| What is a crime? |
A legal violation |
A multi-faceted personal – communal problem. |
| How to look at crime? |
From police perspective. |
From citizens’ point of view. |
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| From top down. |
From bottom up. |
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| From the head. |
From the heart. |
| How to fight crime? |
Reactive |
Pro-active. |
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| Suppression of crime. |
Removal of root causes of crime. |
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Deal with problems related to crime. |
| Deal with crime. |
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| Who are the crime fighters? |
Criminal justice officials |
Everyone who can help. |
| What information is needed to fight crime? |
Police intelligence and experience. |
All useful data –Community, official, research. |
| What are the resources necessary to fight crime? |
Criminal justice system resources |
Any and all kinds of resources - personal, communal, social, spiritual. | |
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