In my opinion, Community Policing and Shaming are good ideas to monitor crime and dealing with criminals. Community Policing provides the community with a voice in how it expects to be policed. The mutual understanding and partnership between the police and the community could bring up the most effective ways of policing. It might also help in solving some recurring criminal problems in the community as both the police officials and the community members tend to be on the same page while trying to fix the issue. Moreover, it gives the police department a chance to become familiar with more people and change the negative views and reputation towards them if any. It helps both parties to interact and make the community a safer place to live in.
Shaming on the other hand could be effective to a certain extent. Some hardened criminals who have no qualms about what they do, probably won't feel embarrassment whatever the case maybe. However, it might work on young teenagers and school children who are usually afraid of their families, teachers and being boycotted by their friends. Shaming is definitely a better method than incarcerating these young children who might commit crimes under the influence of peer groups, drugs etc; and hence they should be given a chance to start afresh.
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