External Resources - Community Engagement
In Police Planning & Problem Solving
Involve the community in the process of developing and evaluating policies, procedures, and strategies.
Establish a serious incident review board comprising sworn staff and community members.
Consider local needs when implementing technology and encourage public participation in the process.
Establish formal community/citizen advisory committees.
- Citizen Advisory Board Review
- Fayetteville Advisory Council
- Community Advisory Boards
- San Jose Chief’s Advisory Board
- Building Effective Civilian Review Boards
- Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Strategic Initiative
- Police Community Advisory Board
- Police Community Advisory Board
- Community Advisory Board
Law enforcement agencies should engage community members in the training process.
Consider the internet and social media as a means to encourage community input and collaboration.
- Police Connect with Community Through Social Media
- Police Get Smarter About Social Media
- Social Media 101
- 4 Ways Social Media can Help Police Departments
Non Traditional Partners
Collaborate with public health, education, mental health, and other non traditional partners.
- Improving Law Enforcement Responses to Adolescent Girls
- The Effects of Adolescent Development on Policing
- Enhancing Police Responses to Children Exposed to Violence: A Toolkit for Law
Enforcement - Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Children Exposed to Violence Training
- Partnering with Businesses
- Law Enforcement and Public Health
- Private Sector Partnerships
- Community Outreach Resource Program
- Putting Housing First
Partner with universities and others to collect data and analyze data.
- Police Partnerships
- University Researcher & Law Enforcement Collaboration
- Connecting Police Researchers & Practitioners
- Challenges in Police-led Evaluations
- Police – Researcher Partnerships
- Research-Practitioner Partnerships
- IACP/UC Center for Research and Policy
- Research Partnerships
Adopt community policing strategies that support and work in concert with economic development efforts.
Partner with academic institutions to integrate research into training, policies and practices.
- Research-Practice Partnerships
- University Researcher & Law Enforcement Collaboration
- Connecting Police Researchers & Practitioners
- Building Trust with Communities
- Evidence-Based Policing
- Excellence in Law Enforcement Research Award
- Challenges in Police-led Evaluations
- Police – Researcher Partnerships
- Research-Practitioner Partnerships
- Center for Research and Policy
- Research Partnerships
Engage advocacy groups in the development of cultural diversity training.
Build relationships with immigrant communities.
Community Police Interaction
Initiate positive non-enforcement activities.
- IACP Institute for Police-Youth Engagement
- Enhancing Police Responses to Children Exposed to Violence: A Toolkit for Law
Enforcement - Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Children Exposed to Violence Training
- Ways Communities Engage with Law Enforcement
- Columbia’s Beyond the Badge
- Orlando Community Engagement
- Louisville Peace Walks
Consider the implications of crime fighting strategies for maintaining community trust.
- Tribal Community Policing
- Reducing Violence on our Streets
- Implementing Problem-Oriented Policing
- Building Communities of Trust
- Effective Policing and Crime Prevention
- Intelligence-Led Community Policing, Community Prosecution, & Community Partnerships
- Operation Hot Spot
- Legitimacy in Hot Spots Policing
- Legitimacy in Crime Hot Spots
- Hot Spots Policing
Refrain from quotas related to officer enforcement actions, particularly those not related to public safety, such as generating revenue.
Adopt preferences for “least harm” resolutions for minor infractions (such as diversion programs or warnings and citations in lieu of arrest).
- IACP Institute for Police-Youth Engagement
- Citation in Lieu of Arrest
- Partnerships in Pretrial Justice
- Law Enforcement’s Role in Pretrial Release
- Citation State Resources
- Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion
- Safety and Justice Challenge
- Police-Corrections Partnerships
Allow sufficient time for patrol officers to participate in problem solving and community engagement activities and value these activities in performance. Evaluations
- Enhancing Police Responses to Children Exposed to Violence: A Toolkit for Law
Enforcement - Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Children Exposed to Violence Training
- Community Engagement in Urban Transit System
- Columbia’s Beyond the Badge
- San Antonio Fear Free Environment Unit
- Matrix Demonstration Project
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Develop programs that create opportunities for patrol officers to regularly interact with neighborhood residents.
- Columbia’s Beyond the Badge
- San Antonio Fear Free Environment Unit
- Engaging Communities One Step at a Time
- Louisville Peace Walks
Schedule regular forums and meetings where all community members can interact with police and help influence programs and policy.
- Local Community Forum
- Project PEACE
- 21st Century Policing Forum
- Tacoma Project PEACE
- Chief’s Breakfast Forum
Decouple immigration enforcement from routine local policing.