After the implementation of the Pacifying Police Units, it has become necessary to rethink the model of police action in the communities. If police raids had, as their main objective, the fight against drug trafficking, now with the installation of a physical police base, the construction of proximity ties between police and community has become crucial. However, implementing a program that presupposes radical change in the way the police has historically been performing their duty is not an easy task, especially when there is a lack of clarity about what community policing means. This research aims to contribute to a better understanding of this new policing model based on the voices of police officers who work or have worked in the Pacifying Police Units program. Based on data generated from semi-structured interviews and in the light of studies of membership categorization analysis and accounts, it was possible to identify the different discourses linked to the police category and the way in which the contrast of these discourses helps produce negative categorization of those who do not conform to traditional police practice. The contrast between activities /discourses not only points to a view of the inefficacy of a war mindset to police practice, but also to the permanence of a combative jargon in the interviewees speech. The results also indicate that the stigmatization of community police identity occurs due to the fact that performance metrics are guided by a culture of crime fighting. Thus, crime prevention tasks are not recognized.