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Community Policing

The Community Policing topic covers efforts by agencies and officers to partner with other branches of local government as well as non-governmental organizations to reduce crime and increase the quality of life for law-abiding citizens.

By emphasizing your department’s beliefs and demonstrating them on every contact, officers’ efforts will be recognized in your community
Helping officers protect, serve and understand is the goal of the Irondale Ensemble Project’s theatrical program
The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office used video to give community members a ‘boots on the ground’s perspective of policing
Police and eyewitness accounts differ on what exactly the corrections officer did as drug store employee strangled shoplifter to death
After more than 40 years of crime fighting, the only person to have led both NYPD and LAPD announced his retirement from law enforcement in October 2009
Detroit police investigating the Mediatakeout.com post, say it might be a hoax
Most reserve officers are in it for community service, love of the job, or trying to get hired
Pages allow for more community interaction with officers
Police Limit Comic is a politically-motivated, pro-law enforcement comic strip, topical in its writing and unapologetically blunt
Seven officers with the Prince George’s County (Md.) Police Department are taking ‘community policing’ to the next level
Some said the training memo encouraged racial profiling
The annual gang conference in Utah began 20 years ago and is still going strong
The social networking company wants to make it easier for kids to report bullying or sexual abuse
Tip411+ allows law enforcement to receive anonymous tips, post social media content
At the Social Media for Law Enforcement conference, experts discuss the “blue wave of change” and the future of community policing
80 defendants would be banned from the poverty-stricken area
Three undercover officers opened fire on a wanted suspect in front of children
The growing network now covers more than 40 states
As Weis talked to reporters, a man was shot blocks away
Police can create timelines with security cameras to help solve crimes
Police are making sure that there is no looting and that citizens are safe
A drive-by shooting recently killed four and wounded five
Department already uses Nixel to communicate with citizens
Brian Kozak detailed several programs and changes he would like to see at the department
Sheriff Fred Wegener says that preparing schools for an active shooter is community policing at its best
Operation Safe Streets, a twice-a-year crime-suppression effort, nets 27 arrests in early March