Community-Police Engagement
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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...
Drugs & Alcohol
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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...
Community-Police Engagement
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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...
Community-Police Engagement
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Police officers perform many tasks to safeguard their community's quality of life. Sometimes their constituents take for granted, forget, or do not know about the good work that officers do and the ri...
Youth
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Law enforcement, social services agencies, community-based organizations, and schools all can play a role in helping a young person to develop and keep from entering the juvenile justice systems. Prev...
Community-Police Engagement
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Sonoma County, California, north of San Francisco Bay, is home to the Law Enforcement Chaplaincy Service. The service has 58 trained chaplains who respond immediately to all parts of the county when c...
Community-Police Engagement
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Successful businesses routinely solicit input from their customers to identify which elements of their product or service create satisfaction or dissatisfaction. Timely and effective use of this infor...
Community-Police Engagement
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Making effective use of the talents and resources outside the police department can help extend severely strained police resources. Police in Providence, Rhode Island, are collaborating with a local u...