A systematic review with a meta-analysis identified 25 studies evaluating on the impact of Community-Oriented Policing community policing programs. MetaA meta-analysis of thoese evaluations showed that the programs positively affect the rates of satisfaction rates with the police. A reduction in perceptions of disorder was also observed. While the meta-analysis did not find any statistically significant results, the systematic review did produce evidence of improved police legitimacy. The authors find found no conclusive evidence that this intervention improves crime prevention or fear of crime. Nor do did they find find any conclusive evidence of improved performance of Community-Oriented Policing community policing when it incorporates orientation to problem orientations. It is important to mention the limitations of the study, due to the conceptual imprecision of the strategy, which generates heterogeneous interventions [1].
The Crime Solutions platform categorizes Community-Oriented-Oriented Policing (COPS) as inconclusive, as it considers this systematic review to have low internal validity, which would preclude a more rigorous assessment of its average effects on the variables of interest.
A more recent meta-analysis, covering six coordinated field experiments in Global South countries in the global south, concluded that Community-Oriented Policing community policing did not generate any of the hypothesized main effects. In the meta-analysis, no statistically significant effects of increased Community-Oriented Policing community policing practices were observed on any of the main outcomes: crime victimization, perception of insecurity, citizen opinion of the police, police abuse, or citizen cooperation with the police. However, effects were observed on secondary measures of related to citizens’ attitudes towardtoward the police in at three of the intervention sites [2].