External Resources - Diverse & Vulnerable Populations
Policy & Training
Review and/or adopt policies toward vulnerable populations, including limiting use of physical control to a last resort.
- Enhancing Police Responses to Children Exposed to Violence: A Toolkit for Law
Enforcement - Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Children Exposed to Violence Training
- Improving Response to Persons Affected by Mental Illness
- National Consensus Policy on Use of Force
- San Francisco Use of Force Policy
- Cincinnati Use of Force Policy
- Police Use of Force
- Use of Force Resources
- Mental Health Response Resources
Adopt identification procedures that eliminate or minimize presenter bias or influence.
Establish search and seizure procedures related to lgbtq and transgender populations.
Adopt and enforce policies prohibiting profiling and discrimination.
Implement ongoing training on cultural diversity, with the assistance of related advocacy groups.
Implement policies and training on cultural diversity/sensitivity, including interactions with the lgbtq population, the muslim, arab and south asian communities and immigrant or non-english speaking groups.
General
Build relationships with immigrant communities.
- Programs for the Immigrant Community
- Policing in New Immigrant Communities
- When Police Engage Immigrant Communities
- Lewiston Community Center
- Increasing Trust
- Bridging the Gap: Engaging Volunteers in Multicultural Outreach
Decouple immigration enforcement from routine local policing.
Ensure reasonable and equitable language access for all persons.
Adopt new technologies to better serve people with special needs or disabilities.
- Responding to Victims with Disabilities
- Communicating with People Deaf or Hard of Hearing
- The ARC Law Enforcement Resources
- 10 Facts for Law Enforcement
Strive for workforce diversity.
- Recognizing & Appreciating Diversity
- Law Enforcement Recruitment Toolkit
- Advancing Diversity
- Barriers to Diversity in Agencies
- Police Force Diversity
- Griffith Police Expand Diversity
- Women in Law Enforcement
- New Demographics of Law Enforcement
- LA County Transgender & Gender Non-Conforming Employee Guide
- Diversity Coordinating Panel
Mental Health & Crisis Situations
Engage in multidisciplinary, community team approaches for responding to crisis situations.
- Enhancing Police Responses to Children Exposed to Violence: A Toolkit for Law
Enforcement - Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Children Exposed to Violence Training
- Tucson’s Mental Health Investigative Support Team
- The Crisis Intervention Team Model
- One Mind Campaign
- Mental Health
- Child Development-Community Policing Program (New Haven)
- Child Development‐Community Policing(Charlotte)
Involve peer support counselors as part of multidisciplinary teams.
- Peer Support Team Manual
- Peer Support Program
- Police Suicide Prevention Program
- Experiences of Supportive & Unsupportive Interactions
- CA Peer Support Association
- Peer Support Guidelines
Evaluate the efficacy of these crisis intervention team approaches and hold agency leaders accountable for outcomes.