Problem-Oriented Policing highlights the call for police to focus on problems rather than individual calls or incidents. Additionally, the police had to deal with a variety of problems within the group, including wrongdoing and social and physical problems. Police need to extend their stockpile of tools to deal with problems. The police expected to draw on criminal law and common statutes and to depend on other civil and community resources if they could somehow deal with wrongdoing and disorder problems. Local policing covers a broad set of reactions to a wide variety of issues, and the confirmatory basis for in-depth studies remains limited. This makes it difficult to make particular proposals on how police offices should handle certain types of matters. The Center for Problem-Oriented Policing has recognized this, creating more than 70 problem-specific guides for police that provide recommendations for how agencies can address a range of different problems (Weisburd, Telep, Hinkle, & Eck, 2008). Problem-oriented policing appears more effective when police departments are involved and fully committed to the principles of problem-oriented policing. In a problem-oriented policing project in public housing in Atlanta, for example, the program suffered greatly because the police were not fully committed to problem-oriented policing (Weisburd, Telep, Hinkle, & Eck,