Community Policing

 

Call Management and Community Policing: A Guide for Law Enforcement (Final Report, 255 pages)

McEwen, Tom, and D. Spence, R. Wolff, J. Wartell, and B. Webster (2003). U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. This guidebook is based on a national survey, telephone interviews, and site visits, and highlights innovative police call management strategies that support community policing. 

COPS Innovations, Promising Strategies from the Field: Community Policing in Smaller Jurisdictions

Institute for Law and Justice and Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (2003). U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. This publication describes 11 innovative community policing efforts supported by COPS funding. 

COPS Innovations, Promising Strategies from the Field: Spotlight on Sheriffs

Institute for Law and Justice and Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (2003). U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. This publication features six sheriffs’ programs that made innovative use of COPS grant funding for community policing.

An Evaluation of the COPS Office Methamphetamine Initiative

McEwen, Tom, C. Uchida, et. al. (2002). U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. This is a comprehensive, final research report (255 pp.) on an evaluation of the COPS Methamphetamine Initiative’s six initial sites (Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis, Little Rock, Dallas, and Oklahoma City).

Computer Aided Dispatch in Support of Community Policing

McEwen, Tom (2002). Institute for Law and Justice. This research report for the National Institute of Justice explores creative uses of CAD/RMS systems to further police agencies’ community policing objectives. See also, Executive Summary of the report.

COPS Innovations, Combating Methamphetamine Laboratories and Abuse: Strategies for Success

McEwen, Tom, C. Uchida, et. al. (2002). U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. This publication features results from a national evaluation of law enforcement strategies to combat methamphetamine in six jurisdictions. 

Transforming the Law Enforcement Organization to Community Policing

Connors, Edward F., B. Webster, et. al. (2001). Institute for Law and Justice. This monograph, prepared for the National Institute of Justice, is based on community policing case studies in Portland (OR), St. Petersburg (FL), San Diego (CA), and Tempe (AZ; a survey of police chiefs and sheriffs; and a literature review of organizational change in the private sector and in policing.

Community Policing in Public Housing (Training curriculum)

Institute for Law and Justice and Community Policing in Public Housing Consortium (1993). This curriculum was developed by the Community Policing in Public Housing Consortium for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, to help teams develop and implement community policing strategies in public housing.

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