Workbook
The Community Trust Workbook
Building Relationships With the People You Serve, One Name at a Time
The badge comes with assumptions. This is where you build something real.
For the law enforcement officer who chose this work to serve people and is managing the trust deficit of the institution alongside their own commitment to the community they protect.
The Name It First Experience
Community trust in law enforcement is at a documented low. Most officers navigate that without a framework for what to do individually. Your Community Trust Charter moves from existing relationships through accountability mapping to person-by-person commitments. Not to the institution. To the people. The work is yours. This is where you write it down.
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Sample questions
- Why did you come to this work — and what is the gap between that reason and how the people you serve currently see you?
- What is the trust deficit you inherited — and what are you doing to build trust that belongs to you, not just your badge?
- What specific commitments are you willing to make to the people you serve — in how you treat them, in what you do and don't do?
Research basis
Tyler on procedural justice — legitimacy, voice, neutrality, and respect as drivers of community trust in policing / Litz et al. on moral injury applied to law enforcement / Maslach burnout inventory on community mismatch and role conflict in law enforcement / Cruess & Cruess on professional identity formation / Weitzer & Tuch on trust disparities across communities
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