The studies on community policing are incredibly clear, particularly the recent study published by Dr. Rutland. Although originally many communities had aspirations of a positive relationship with the police, they ended up retrenching and even increasing police profiling with racialized surveillance, and arrests of Black people in those communities became more extensive. In effect, it was an expansion of policing in another format, as opposed to reducing those harms. It did not achieve the goal of reducing systemic racism within policing, not at all.
On November 23rd, 2020. See this statement in context.