Defining the concept of community is difficult, because it rests on a notion of social harmony and in reality may be used to enforce one group's views of moral or social behavior and to define the behavior of other groups as being outside community standards. This issue is particularly important with respect to Aboriginal areas which have received disproportionate allocations of police resources. Explaining such over-policing within the model of community policing is difficult. One test of the commitment to community policing would be the achievement of a substantial reduction in the numbers of police in such areas. In addition, the overreliance on paramilitary police and their extreme force levels in Aboriginal areas blatantly contradicts the model of community policing. Finally, some form of Aboriginal control over Aboriginal-police liaison programs and open confrontation of the issue of police violence are needed if community policing is to become a reality in these areas. Photographs, figure, table, footnotes, and 22 references