Advocates of community policing regard the approach as useful in juvenile justice for a number of ...

Direct engagement with a community gives police more immediate information about problems unique to a neighborhood and better insight into their solutions.
 Freeing officers from the emergency response system permits them to engage more directly in proactive crime prevention.
 Making police operations more visible increases police accountability to the public.
 Decentralizing operations allows officers to develop greater familiarity with the needs of various constituencies in the community and to adapt procedures to accommodate those needs.
 Encouraging officers to view citizens as partners improves relations between police and the public.
 Moving decision making to patrol officers places more authority in the hands of the people who best know the community's problems and expectations.
 Student views will vary.

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