User talk:Thecrimelord

Hi Thecrimelord, and welcome to Wikpedia.

I'd like to make the Intelligence-led policing article a little more clear. I don't think that "building on other models," or at least how I intended that phrase, contradicts that it originated as a rejection of community policing (note that the Canada section mentions rejecting the 'community' fixation).

The article I cited there makes it out to be more like not 'throwing the baby out with the bath water' so to speak, meaning that not everything about earlier models has been rejected in favour of a completely new innovation. Someone else (an American, I think) added in the police article that it's complementary to the other models, but I'm not sure that's entirely accurate either. I'm no expert, but the impression I have is that it's more of a philosophy than an operational model, and maybe it should be worded to better to reflect that. Some sources have said that there's not a whole of difference on the ground between ILP and problem-oriented policing, which would seem to support this.

Also, the 'revisionist' comment you added makes it sound like a move back to community-policing concerns, making that section seem to contradict itself (after all, what's the difference between a "neighbourhood" and a "community"?). I haven't read the source you cited, but if there was a specific revision in the UK, it should probably go in the UK section so that the introduction stays global. Anyways, thanks for your contribution; I just wanted to see what you think before mucking about in the article. bobanny 21:39, 26 June 2007 (UTC)