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“Experience with community policing was positively associated with support for the practice… The second most consistent predictor of officer support… is officers' political ideology… More conservative officers were generally less supportive of community policing."

Why Do Officers Support Community Policing? A Cross-departmental and Cross-temporal Comparison
Behavioral Sciences & the Law
Vol. 37 Issue 6, pp. 665–680,
2019
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