This policy change may produce the desired effect of lower incarceration rates for minor offenders and the ripple effect can lead to positive outcomes in community policing relationships. Through decriminalization and falling incarceration rates, local police philosophies are aligning with new movements in criminal justice and social service systems that seek to make difficult but cost-effective decisions about the allocation of rare resources (Palow, 2012 p.1196). Community policing therefore encompasses collaboration with various community stakeholders: neighborhood groups, grassroots organizations, landowners, businesses, other government representatives and agencies, etc. By making common cause, the community can define its social norms and values ​​(Palow, 2012 p.1199). Failures in neighborhoods associated with social unrest have spurred police responses aimed at cracking down on low-level criminal offenses in order to stop their proliferation, escalation, or both. Police strategies target both social and physical unrest. Social disorder includes loitering, vandalism, gangs, public drinking, drug dealing, prostitution and street harassment. Physical disturbances include abandoned buildings, graffiti, litter on streets and sidewalks, abandoned cars, waste and garbage in vacant lots, etc. (Palow, 2012 p.1203). In response to these social unrest, policies have been developed to target these lesser degrees of social and physical unrest. The failure of policy and the passing of vague laws by the legislature leads to a fundamental distrust of communities and local police departments. The commitment must be clear and observable by all and must be irreversible (Aikins, 2015). The failure of policing communities across