Actually....I think our country needs both...more community based policing and more gun control.

HOW this policing effort is delivered andwith what strings attached is the question. Grants available to cities to expand their policing efforts....do not seem like such a bad idea...I worked for years in a City with a very high crime rate and Budget problems....and everyone wanted to see more police available on the ground, particularly in the most challenged areas.

At Catholic Charities we worked directly with our police department to establish safer neighborhoods, to provide more assistance for our frail and poor elderly....we saw an awful lot of elder abuse, robbery, assault, drug deals going on right outside our folks doors...you name it...I really like the officers I worked with and appreciated their help ...but they were short handed, staffing wise.

I don't think I'd pose this issue as an either/or, but rather a both/and.