'Their job is to help communities become healthy so crime plummets..'<blockquote>'..The force has slowly shifted from a paramilitary style to more interactive, community policing.
Officers who were once appraised by the number of the arrests they made are now encouraged to prevent trouble before it happens, says Connie Rice, who has moved from "constantly suing" the LAPD to working with them.
"I've even got a parking space there," laughs Ms Rice, who has been working with the LAPD on a programme placing 50 police officers in four housing projects.
"Their job is to help communities become healthy so crime plummets in those housing projects. These cops will get promoted for demonstrating how they avoid arresting a kid." '
- Regan Morris,
LA riots: How 1992 changed the police, April 28, 2012</blockquote>
Context<blockquote>
Community Policing: Principles and ElementsStory - “Se-Cura” , “without fear”</blockquote>