Abstract
Community-policing approaches police change from two dimensions, one administrative and the other political. The administrative aspects of community policing address structural and managerial issues, for example, decentralization, participatory management, and so on. The political dimension is somewhat less straightforward because it seeks to address the conditions of bureaucracy that conflict with democratic principles. In this article, the author proposes to explore the notion of representative bureaucracy as it applies to policing. Specifically, the author investigates the degree to which the beliefs of the police mirror their constituency (belief congruence) in a mid-sized Southeastern city. Implications about belief congruence derived from previous research are in part confirmed and in part rejected by these findings.
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