Community Policing draws citizens and police together to check crime and resolve the problems of the neighborhood. The main aim of community policing is on stopping crimes before it happens. Community policing provides citizens with more authority over the quality of life in their neighborhood. The term community policing itself refers to the fact that police becomes a part of the neighborhood.
Thomas Jefferson used the philosophies of John Locke for the Declaration of Independence. The words "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" was an idea first stated by Lock in the Two Treatises on Government.
