Community policing, a policy and a strategy directed toward realizing more effective and efficient crime control, reduced fear of crime, and improved police services and police legitimacy, assumes a need for greater accountability of police, an increase in public decisionmaking, and more concern for civil rights and liberties. Both the greatest advantage and disadvantage of the community policing model is that it does not provide a solution for problems requiring immediate attention. The approach proposes focusing away from the individual level of police practice to the organizational level of coordination and synchronization of efforts and provides the basis for the argument of the necessity to shift attention from "Officer Smiley" to interagency cooperation. 1 figure and 28 references