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Write 4 pages with APA style on Community Policing: Barriers and Issues. Barriers are persistent concentrations of related incidents. Often these barriers are defined by location, when incidents cluster in small areas. Poverty, inequality, and minority group size, once considered to be related to policing barriers and difficulties only insofar as they influenced the rate of crime, are now seen to be important in police resource determination. Although the impact of stratification and power on public commitment to social control has been established, the exact nature of the links of minority group size, poverty, inequality, crime, and threat with social control resource determination has not yet been specified and requires more theoretical and empirical consideration. Areas to be further researched involve the extent to which stratification, the distribution of power, and minority group threat:

(b) Affect the nature and quality of policing activity, the hostility level of police/community relations, and the direction of municipal policing funds toward development of a weapons arsenal and training in crowd and riot control.