Police departments are currently interested in increasing the presence of female personnel. Providing a diversified spectrum of communication and problem-approaching perspectives through female voices could bring additional insights to community policing. The purpose of this thesis is to examine whether the representation of women in large, local departments affects community policing implementation. It utilizes the 2016 and 2020 Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) datasets to assess this relationship via a logistic regression. The results failed to find statistical significance between women representation across ranks and community policing implementation. Yet, one of the control variables, task scope, showed statistical significance with community policing implementation. Further research studies are encouraged to support the potential association between women representation and various forms of community policing implementation.
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