community policing Archives

Strategic Communications

Effectively communicating in a culturally relevant manner with various audiences is an essential component of community policing. To that end, a multidimensional, multicultural approach to strategic ...

Perspectives

Perspectives: Law Enforcement and Multicultural Community Collaboration

Consider developing an outreach plan to build trust with multicultural communities. The plan can include non-enforcement informal engagement, educational events on rights and procedures, mutual cross-...

Community-Police Engagement

Accountable and Inclusive Policing

Criminals prey on the most vulnerable of our neighbors. It is these individuals’ vulnerability that makes them attractive to someone seeking to take something from them—whether that is their prope...

Community-Police Engagement

Cultural Competency and Community Policing

The United States has multiple nicknames since its origin, including the land of the free, the home of the brave, Uncle Sam, and the great melting pot. The “great melting pot” suggests that there ...

Criminal Justice Reform

Community-Oriented Problem-Solving

In the last 50 years, the policing profession has witnessed a proliferation of law enforcement operating models and methodologies. In a large part, this change has been energized by major studies that...

Community-Police Engagement

Community Policing in Multicultural Communities

Community policing has ebbed and flowed in popularly and application over the years, though many suggest it is still a viable policing strategy that helps to establish trust and leads to genuine partn...

Youth

Implementing a Youth Engagement Strategy

The importance of engaging youth in crime prevention, community wellness, and trust building cannot be overstated. The profession of policing, at its core, is focused on the prevention and reduction o...