Promoting Gendered Justice using the Community-Oriented Policing Model.

The majority of police departments today in the United States and Canada claim to "do" community policing on some level. Community policing has become central in the manner police agencies define and promote themselves. The purpose of this paper is to first examine the apparent promotion and centrality of "community policing" in two large urban police departments (one in the U.S. and one in Canada). The second part of the paper examines the gendered experiences that female officers encounter, and critically explores the possibility of using Community Policing initiatives as feminist tools to encourage social and structural changes within the occupational culture of policing which continues to reflect, for the most part, the traditional, paramilitarisic, crime control model that does not support gendered justice goals. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]