Results of this case study indicate that lack of resources, time constraints, and the organizational culture were significant barriers to community policing implementation in this agency. The results indicate that even in an agency that has claimed to fully adopt community policing, significant barriers to its implementation still exist. Even with these barriers, it is believed that in order for community policing to be successful, police officers must also believe in it. Community policing is the operating philosophy of the majority of American police departments in the new millennium. Though most departments claim to engage in community policing, research has shown that implementation of the strategy is uneven. Investigating the implementation of community policing, this study sought to assess the extent to which community policing was accepted and practiced by a sample of patrol officers in a medium-sized municipal police department in Florida that had allegedly adopted the community policing model department-wide. Tables, notes, and references