IACP and COPS Office Resources: Community-Police Relations
The following resources from the IACP and the COPS Office are meant to provide stakeholders with essential tools to improve community-police relations. The list is sorted by organization, then by subject, and includes a collection of topics focused on community awareness, internal affairs, and building community trust.
Community Trust
- Institute for Community-Police Relations
- Building Communities of Trust: A Guidance for Community Leaders
- Building Trust between the Police and the Citizens They Serve
- Moving Forward to Build Community Trust
- Moving Barriers and Building Trust
- The Public’s Trust
- Legitimacy through Policing
- Testimony of Vincent Talucci (IACP Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer), Listening Session: Technology
Community Awareness
- IACP National Policy Summit on Community-Police Relations: Advancing a Culture of Cohesion and Community Trust
- Enhancing Communications Efforts with Law Enforcement and the Public
- Committee on Terrorism: Community Outreach and Engagement Principles
- A Resource Guide to Improve Your Community’s Awareness and Reporting of Suspicious Activity: For Law Enforcement and Community Partners
- A Day in the Life of a Community Policing Unit Sergeant
Internal Affairs
- Discover Policing
- Ethics Toolkit
- Emerging Use of Force Issues: Balancing Public and Officer Safety
- Intelligence-Led Community Policing, Community Prosecution, and Community Partnerships
- Officer-Involved Shootings Investigative Protocols: A Guide for Law Enforcement Leaders
- Addressing Racial Profiling: Creating a Comprehensive Commitment to Bias-Free Policing
- Police Pursuits in an Age of Innovation and Reform
- Protecting Civil Rights: A Leadership Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement
- Testimony of Richard Beary, Listening Session: Building Trust and Legitimacy
Web-Based Tools
COPS OFFICE RESOURCES
Community
- The Final Report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing
- The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing Implementation Guide
- BOLO (Community Policing Development Projects)
- Community Partnerships CD Rom
- Community Policing Defined
- Community Policing Learning Portal
- Community Policing Self-Assessment Tool
- Community Survey on Public Safety and Law Enforcement
- Uniting Communities Post-9/11: Tactics for Cultivating Community Policing Partnerships with Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian Communities
- After-Action Assessment of the Police Response to the August 2014 Demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri
Immigration
- Bridging the Language Divide: Promising Practices for Law Enforcement
- Building Strong Police-Immigrant Community Relations: Lessons from a New York City Project
- Engaging Police in Immigrant Communities
Race
- Racial Reconciliation, Truth Telling, and Police Legitimacy
- Strengthening the Relationship between Law Enforcement and Communities of Color
- Waking in Oak Creek DVD
Trust
Collaboration
- The Collaboration Toolkit for Community Organizations
- The Collaboration Toolkit for Law Enforcement
- Maximizing the Benefits of Reform: Integrating Compstat and Community Policing in America
- Not in Our Town + Cops
- Use of Deadly Force
- Promoting Partnerships between Police and Community Supervision Agencies
- Shifting and Sharing Responsibility for Public Safety Problems
- A Bowling Green Legacy DVD
- Strategic Communications Practices: A Toolkit for Police Executives
