Abstract
The local foundations of law enforcement, public schools, and numerous types of special purpose governments are intended to ensure a close relationship between prevailing community values and policy preferences. Community policing is one of such attempts to promote police and resident partnership in reducing local social disorder and crimes. This article makes use of Rokeach's theory of human values and his survey instrument and analytical methodology to assess the degree to which the values and ideological perspectives of police officers differ from those of the citizens they serve in a typical medium-sized city (about 170 000 population) in the Western region of the United States. The results reported here indicate that there is a substantial difference in value orientations and in ideological perspectives between police officers and citizens in this city. The implications of these findings are discussed with respect to the successful implementation of community policing.
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