Community Policing

The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) of the U.S. Department of Justice defines community policing as “a policing philosophy that promotes and supports organizational strategies to address the causes and reduce the fear of crime and social disorder through problem-solving tactics and police-community partnerships.” Police departments all across the United States subscribe to community policing in one form or another as police agencies have realized that the more involved the community is in policing the more effective the efforts to make the communities safer. There is a growing understanding that better relations between the police and community benefits both in creating safer communities.

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Publications

Chicago Police Department. Joint Community Police Training Handbook. Chicago: The City of Chicago Department of Police, 1996.

Chicago Police Department, “Strengthening Relations Between Police and Minority Communities: Ensuring Accountability for Effective Policing in Chicago’s Diverse Neighborhoods,” 2000. http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/COC_EDITORIAL/RaceRelations.pdf

Chicago Police Department, “The Juvenile Gang Intervention Partnership Pilot Program,” 2001. http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/COC_EDITORIAL/Q101FTR.pdf

Chicago Police Department, “Breaking Down Barriers and Building Trust: A Progress Report on the Initiatives to Strengthen Relations Between Police and Chicago’s Diverse Communities,” 2002.
http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/COC_EDITORIAL/RaceRelations02.pdf

Jill Dubois and Susan M. Hartnett. “Making the Community Side of Community Policing Work: What Needs to be Done.” Policing and Community Partnerships. Dennis J. Stevens ed., New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, “Partnerships for Prevention? Some Obstacles to Police-Community Cooperation,” 1994.
http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/publications/policing_papers/caps3.pdf

Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, “Community Policing and ‘the New Immigrants:’ Latinos in Chicago,” National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, 2002.
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/189908.pdf

Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, “Taking Stock: Community Policing in Chicago,” National Institute of Justice, 2002.
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/189909.pdf

National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, “Community Policing Strategies,” Research Preview, November 1995.
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/cpstrat.pdf

Northwestern University, “Community Policing in Chicago, Year 10,” Fall 2004.
http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/publications/policing_papers/Yr10-CAPSeval.pdf

Kenneth J. Peak, and Ronald W. Glensor. Community Policing and Problem Solving: Strategies and Practices, (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall), 2002.

Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, U.S. Department of Justice, “Community Policing in Action: A Practitioner’s View of Organizational Change,” July 2003.
http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/default.asp?Item=893

Police Executive Research Forum, “Community Policing: The Past, Present, and Future,” November 2004.
www.policeforum.org

Deborah Ramirez, Sasha Cohen O’Connell, and Rabia Zafar, “Developing Partnerships Between Law Enforcement and American Muslim, Arab, and Sikh Communities: A Promising Practices Guide,” Boston: Northeastern University, 2004.
http://www.ace.neu.edu/pfp/projects/guide.php

Tammy A. Rinehart, Anna T. Laszlo, and Gwen O. Briscoe, “Collaboration Toolkit:
How to Build, Fix, and Sustain Productive Partnerships,” U.S.
Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, 2001.
http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/?Item=344

Vera Institute of Justice, “Issues in Community Policing: Problems in the Implementation of Eight Innovative Neighborhood- Oriented Policing Programs,” National Institute of Justice, 1994.
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/implcp.pdf

W.G. Skogan and S.M. Hartnett, “Community Policing, Chicago Style,” New York: Oxford University, 1997.

Wesley Skogan, “Community Participation and Community Policing,” Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, updated 1995.
http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/publications/policing_papers/caps4.pdf

Dennis J. Stevens, “Policing and Community Partnerships,” New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2002.

Quint Thurman, Jihong Zhao and Andrew L. Giacomazzi, “Community Policing in a Community Era,” Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Co, 2001.

Hans Toch and Douglas Grant, “Police as Problem Solvers: How Frontline Workers Can Promote Organizational and Community Change, Second Edition, Washington, D.C.: APA Books, September 2004.

U.S. Conference of Mayors, “The Influence of Community Policing in City Governments: A 281-City Survey,” 2001.
http://www.usmayors.org/USCM/uscm_projects_services/human_services
/community_policing/influence_survey.pdf

U.S. Department of Justice, Community Relations Service,“Principles of Good Policing,” updated September 2003.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crs/pubs/principlesofgoodpolicingfinal092003.doc

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, “Making the Match: Law Enforcement, the Faith Community and the Value-Based Initiative,” December 2003.
http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/mime/open.pdf?Item=1041

Vera Institute of Justice, Assessing Police-Public Contacts in Seattle, WA, January 2004.
http://www.cityofseattle.net/police/Publications/Special/VeraInstituteStudy.pdf

Vera Institute of Justice, Building Strong Police-Immigrant Community Relations: Lessons from a New York City Project, COPS, August 2005.
http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/mime/open.pdf?Item=1576

Elizabeth Watson, Alfred R. Stone and Stuart M. Deluca, “Strategies for Community Policing,” New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1998.

Maya Harris West, “Community-Centered Policing: A Force for Change,” Oakland, California: PolicyLink, 2001.

James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling, "The Police and Neighborhood Safety: Broken Windows." The Atlantic Monthly, March l982.

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