Researchers: Robert Blair, Guy Grossman, and Anna Wilke
 Community policing, which aims to create opportunities for positive, mutually respectful interactions between civilians and the police, may increase citizen trust and enhance the ability of police to enforce the law, but little evidence has existed on this model outside of the U.S. and other developed countries. As part of a six-country initiative to generate generalizable findings on community policing in
developing countries, researchers measured the impact of community policing in Uganda on trust in the police, citizen cooperation with the police, and crime and violence rates. Overall, the study found that the community policing program had no impact on the incidence of crime, perceptions of the police, or trust in police. While crime reporting and knowledge increased, the community policing program also appears to have increased police misbehavior, especially with regard to bribe-seeking and corruption.
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