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A 3 page overview of the innovative partnership between law enforcement and citizens. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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enforcement personnel and various community members and groups. This partnership can be either formal or informal but it greatly improves the chances that community problems will be addressed in
the most effective manner possible. An excellent example of such a partnership can be found in Lynchburg, Virginia. Lynchburg suffers from a variety of community problems but these
problems are being whittled away at thanks to an innovative community policing program that has been forged as a result of a unique Concerned Reliable Citizens Program, a partnership between
well-meaning citizens, the Lynchburg Police Department, and the Office of the Commonwealths Attorney (Duff, 2006). As is the case for
communities around the nation, Lynchburg suffers from a high crime rate. Illicit drugs are of particular concern in the community. Individual citizens took it upon themselves to contact
law enforcement personnel with information on various forms of criminal conduct that they observed occurring around their homes and in other areas of Lynchburg. While law enforcement has always
been aware of the potential these individual reports had in terms of providing evidence that would allow them to intercede in suspected cases of criminal activity, the Virginia courts had
a history of being rather reluctant to support the use of anonymous complaints as a basis for police intervention (Duff, 2006). For police to use such reports they had
to be used in conjunction with sufficient additional evidence, evidence that took considerable effort and resources to generate (Duff, 2006). Lynchburg
law enforcement entities recognized that part of the historic problem with information received from informants had been that this information most typically came from criminal informants who hoped to profit
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