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Low-Cost Innovations: Community Outreach through Children’s Programs

In 1995 the City of Pocomoke began an innovative approach to community policing by initiating a number of community outreach programs aimed at youth. The programs grew from modest beginnings, with lit...

Terrorism

The Bali Bombing: Australian Law Enforcement Assistance to Indonesia

The Australian law enforcement response to the Bali nightclub bombings in October 2002 is one of the most significant operations ever undertaken by Australian law enforcement agencies. Led by the Aust...

Community-Police Engagement

Low-Cost Innovations: Police-Community Partnership Program

For many years the Lodi Police Department had too little involvement with the community. The department was reactive; the prevailing policing style was to wait for a crime to be committed or a problem...

Technology

The In-Car Camera: Value and Impact

In the late 1990s, lawsuits alleging race-based traffic stops were being filed against state police and highway patrol agencies throughout the United States. In some instances, the courts ruled that r...

Drugs & Alcohol

Low-Cost Innovations: Reducing Nuisance Parties and Noise Complaints

Big Rapids, in northwest Michigan, has a population of about 10,000. It is also home to 10,000 Ferris State University students. Approximately 3,000 students live on campus and another 5,000 live in r...

Leadership

View from the Top: The Frustrations of Police Chiefs, and How to Solve Them

A prominent police educator called the police chief position "the most difficult and demanding job in public administration today." A government journal article about police chiefs is titled "Mission ...

Community-Police Engagement

Low-Costs Innovations: Proud: Giving Neighborhoods A Fresh Start

For years, the nationally recognized Neighborhood Watch program provided Morrow's residents with knowledge of crime prevention techniques. Sadly, the program was not maintaining its initial enthusiasm...

Traffic Safety

From the Deputy Administrator: 2003 Traffic Safety Data

Although the traffic fatality rate has dropped dramatically since the mid-1960s, traffic crashes account for 95 percent of all transportation-related deaths and 99 percent of transportation-related in...