They know the members of the community and the people in that community know them, making them members of the said community. After some time this small community will have become accustomed to and accepted this officer. Give the officer more control and assistance. Police officer empowerment is vital to community policing, as Kim Pemberton wrote quoting Judge Wally Opal: “Police forces should decentralize and give individual officers greater authority to work with communities.” The officer is tasked with making sure the area doesn't attract any crime, making sure all broken windows are repaired, lawns are mowed, drunks are off the streets, and so on. Through community policing, the opening paragraph of this document could have been drastically different. The officer would know who he was dealing with, whether or not that individual deserved to be arrested. All without the hostile attacks on the man and his family. When you get to know a person, you understand who they are and what they do. When officers learn about and become part of that community, they can help eliminate the root causes of crime. (Wilson,