In light of the community neighborhood watch widely promoted by local governments in the United States of America, this thesis explores the core problems and dilemmas of community neighborhood watch through the theory and practice of citizen participation and with the example of citizen patrols in Wenshan District, Taipei City. Moreover, in parallel to the limited and similar application experiences of local governments in Taiwan, and via the analysis as well as the comparison between theory and practice, this study proposes the application models that our local governments can follow. In these models, with the citizen participation the citizen patrols are expected to find core values and to manage everlastingly, as two external factors exist. The first one is the coercive, remunerative and normative power of leadership, while the second factor concerns the involvement of the personnel, including the alienative involvement, the calculative involvement, and moral involvement.
