The phrase "community policing" has been throw around a lot lately.
It's been a buzz word among Baltimore police commissioner Kevin Davis, and now it's being offered up nationwide as a way to build trust between officers and the people they're sworn to protect.
Davis started pushing community policing as soon as he took over the department last year. It's a program you might remember from your childhood.
"I say it's Officer Friendly on steroids," said major Marc Partee. "Instead of just the one officer friendly that I used to see when I went to Pimlico Elementary School that would come in, give us coloring books and give us a little plastic badge and we felt good for the day... we are putting that model on the streets every day walking around and connecting."
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Now the Department of Justice is pushing the idea of community policing and fronting the money to encourage it.
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