Of Common Bonds: Accounting for Intergenerational Culture Competency in Community Policing

• Date: 01 January 2019
• DOI: 10.1177/2153368718810368
• Published date: 01 January 2019
• Subject Matter: Articles

Article

Of Common Bonds:

Accounting for

Intergenerational

Culture Competency

in Community Policing

Denise McLane-Davison

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, Sharlene Allen-Milton

1

,

Paul Archibald

1

, and Robert Holmes

1

Abstract

Community policing is grounded in a set of knowledge and skills that promotes a

collaborative relationship between community residents, law enforcement, public

and private industry, and governing elected officials to achieve safe and sustainable

communities. In the fall of 2016, on the heels of the Department of Justice Civil

Rights Division’s Investigative Report, a cohort of Morgan State University’s School

of Social Work faculty, trained in the results-based accountability (RBA) model,

developed and implemented an interactive workshop on cultural competency with

70 community partners from law enforcement. Cultural competence is an inherit

cornerstone of a viable community and police partnership. This article shares how

outcome-based performance strategies such as RBA can facilitate a pathway for

enhancing community generational cultural competence leading to public safety.

Keywords

community policing, race and policing, citizen satisfaction, African/Black Americans,

race/ethnicity, bias in the criminal justice system, race and public opinion, treatment by

the police

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School of Social Work, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Corresponding Author:

Denise McLane-Davison, School of Social Work, 430 Jenkins Building, 1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Morgan

State University, Baltimore, MD 21251, USA.

Email: denise.davison@morgan.edu

Race and Justice

2019, Vol. 9(1) 8-21

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