Community Policing
Community Policing: The Collective Role and Understanding of Keeping the Peace While Maintaining Law, Order, and Civility
By Steven M. Sheridan
Currently, the discussion regarding crime and communities has focused solely on the police profession as the cause and solution. This approach is historically false and designed to elicit community discourse.
Historically, crime prevention has been a community responsibility, not just a police responsibility. There is currently no discussion attempting to put the community back into community policing.
This book discusses foundational practices from a community aspect, which includes the police. Instead of claiming a higher standard for the police, we discuss a single standard for all community members, which the police exemplify. We discuss the Peelian Principles as a means to re-establish everyone’s responsibility in crime prevention – then we can practice proper accountability.
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Meet The Author
Steven M. Sheridan M. Ed
Steve has been in law enforcement for more than 25 years, 24 years as an instructor, designing and implementing highly specialized courses and programs in firearms, defensive tactics, and high-risk vehicle and vessel stops, Response to Resistance and or Aggression, and verbal De-Escalation. He has also supervised and trained special teams in law enforcement. He was inducted into the Police Hall of Fame for Life Saving in 2010. He is currently a star instructor at a state police academy.
Steve has a B.S. degree in Sociology from FSU (1994), and he holds a Masters in Adult Education from the University of Phoenix (2010). He is also the founder and president of the Leadership and Training Research Institute and Director of Training for De-Escalate which teaches verbal De-Escalation skills to Police, Corrections, Schools, Security Personnel, and Hospitals. He has developed and taught classes to sworn law enforcement agencies and academies such as; Alcohol Beverage & Tobacco Agents, Florida Public Safety Institute (Sudden Assault Survival for Smaller Officers, Team Tactics for Handcuffing and Control Advanced Teaching Methods for Firearms Instructors, and more). He has presented for ILEETA )international Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association) and isn an IADLEST (international Association o Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training) certified national instructor as well. He has also presented leadership programs for public and private sector organizations around the country including US Virgin Islands Police Department ad Arthur J Gallagher Company. He owned and operated a martial arts school for 7 years before getting back into law enforcement full time.
In 2020 he played a key role in getting the first response to resistance policy (use of force) through the accreditation process for a local college which removed the inaccurate use of the term “force” when related to police actions.
Steve is the founder of the Cognitive Warrior initiative which includes a podcast discussing today’s issues regarding communities with an emphasis on the role between citizens and the law enforcement profession.
He is a published author, “Florida Anyway You Can,” an account of his becoming the first person to hike the Florida Trail and Canoe the Length of the state He has a new book due out in May 2022; Leadership in Law Enforcement – What You Need Before You Lead. This book discusses in more detail how our profession can recenter, and then get our communities to do the same.