Secondly, community policing should be a broad-spectrum policing function. The third element is collaboration between the community and the police. Fourth, general knowledge and skills should be applied during community policing. Fifth, community policing should work to solve a specific problem within the community. Finally, community policing should decentralize authority (“Community and Problem,” n.d.). While the above information describes why community policing was developed and its functions, Jack Kuykendall sought to find out what type of officers are involved in community policing. According to Kuykendall, there are three types of officers involved in community policing. First, there is the gatekeeper willing to overlook minor violations to ensure peace is maintained. Second, there is the legalistic official who believes that there is a single course of correction – legal – for every situation. Third, there is the duty officer who operates with discretion in every situation (Kuykendall, 1974). However, communities want local law enforcement to employ community policing