Fear of crime can lead to increased anxiety social withdrawal and many other outcomes. One of the goals of community policing is to reduce the fear of crime by building positive relationships with the people in an officerÂ’s neighborhood and town. Distrust of law enforcement is one area that we covered in this Module and studies have found that the level of trust relates to many factors but race appears to be one of them. Community policing also hopes to tackle the issue of distrust by the strong relationships it seeks to make between officers and community members.
