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Here are some highlights of the Program's Community Policing projects:

Evaluation of the Implementation of the "Public Safety Partnership and Community Policing Act" (September 2000)

(These ten case studies, written by the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management for the Urban Institute and National Institute of Justice, accompany a full NIJ Research Report, National Evaluation of the COPS Program: Title I of the 1994 Crime Act (chapter 7 written by Moore, Thacher, Coles, Sheingold, and Hartmann), and a shorter Research in Brief, The COPS Program After 4 Years--National Evaluation. In addition, see Working Paper 99-05-16, a full cross-site analysis of the 10 cases.)


Executive Session on Drugs and Community Policing (special attention to the West Coast) (1990-93)

  • Innovations in policing often do not carry across the country. This Executive Session aimed to apply the community policing conversations to police departments in Western United States.


Executive Session on Policing (1985-91)

  • The Executive Session that had the greatest impact on the field and that was at the core of the Program in Criminal Justice's work for more than seven years was the Executive Session on Policing. Members included the U.S. Attorney General, the head of Scotland Yard, and police chiefs and mayors of several cities. The products of this Executive Session--a series of seventeen papers called Perspectives on Policing--were widely distributed throughout the country and have become community policing training materials used by police departments and academies.


Case studies on Neighborhood Revitalization Through Community/Police Partnerships (written by the KSG Case Program)

  • C15-98-1423.0 Simon, Harvey. "The Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS): Activism and Apathy in Englewood"
  • C15-98-1424.0 Simon, Harvey. "Policing St. Petersburg's Palmetto Park and Round Lake Neighborhoods"
  • C14-99-1531.0 Buntin, John. "Community Development and Community Policing in Seattle's Chinatown International District: Part A"
  • C14-99-1532.0 Buntin, John. "Community Development and Community Policing in Seattle's Chinatown International District: Part B: The Community Action Partnership Begins"
  • C15-01-1606.0 Simon, Harvey. "The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the One Neighborhood for Everyone Collaborative"
  • C15-01-1607.0 Simon, Harvey. "Norfolk's Police Assisted Community Enforcement (PACE): The Bay View and East Norview Neighborhoods

Perspectives on Policing Series

No. 1 Kelling, George L. "Police and Communities: The Quiet Revolution." Perspectives on Policing, February 1988.

No. 2 Moore, Mark H., Robert C. Trojanowicz, and George L. Kelling. "Crime and Policing." Perspectives on Policing, June 1988.

No. 3 Moore, Mark H., and Robert C. Trojanowicz. "Policing and the Fear of Crime." Perspectives on Policing, June 1988.

No. 4 Kelling, George L., and Mark H. Moore. "The Evolving Strategy of Policing." Perspectives on Policing, November 1988.

No. 5 Hartmann, Francis X., ed. "Debating the Evolution of American Policing: An Edited Transcript to Accompany 'The Evolving Strategy of Policing.'" Perspectives on Policing, November 1988.

No. 6 Moore, Mark H., and Robert C. Trojanowicz. "Corporate Strategies for Policing." Perspectives on Policing, November 1988.

No. 7 Kelling, George L., Robert Wasserman, and Hubert Williams. "Police Accountability and Community Policing." Perspectives on Policing, November 1988.

No. 8 Wasserman, Robert, and Mark H. Moore. "Values in Policing." Perspectives on Policing, November 1988.

No. 9 Sparrow, Malcolm K. "Implementing Community Policing." Perspectives on Policing, November 1988.

No. 10 Kelling, George L., and James K. Stewart. "Neighborhoods and Police: The Maintenance of Civil Authority." Perspectives on Policing, May 1989.

No. 11 Moore, Mark H., and Mark A. R. Kleiman. "The Police and Drugs." Perspectives on Policing, September 1989.

No. 12 Brown, Lee P. "Community Policing: A Practical Guide for Police Officials." Perspectives on Policing, September 1989.

No. 13 Williams, Hubert, and Patrick V. Murphy. "The Evolving Strategy of Police: A Minority View." Perspectives on Policing, January 1990.

No. 14 Kennedy, David M. "The Strategic Management of Police Resources." Perspectives on Policing, January 1993.

No. 15 Meese, Edwin III. "Community Policing and the Police Officer." Perspectives on Policing, January 1993.

No. 16 Sparrow, Malcolm K. "Information Systems and the Development of Policing." Perspectives on Policing, March 1993.

No. 17 Kelling, George L., and William J. Bratton. "Implementing Community Policing: The Administrative Problem." Perspectives on Policing, June 1993.

Other Publications by the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management (See also our Working Papers on Policing)

Hartmann, Francis X., Lee Brown, and Darrel Stephens. Community Policing: Would You Know It If You Saw It? Community Policing Series No. 16. East Lansing, MI: The National Neighborhood Foot Patrol Center, 1988.

Kennedy, David M. Closing the Market: Controlling the Drug Trade in Tampa, Florida. National Institute of Justice Program Focus. April 1993. (NCJ Number: 139963)
Available from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service by calling (800) 851-3420 or (301) 519-5500 or by writing to P.O. Box 6000, Rockville, MD 20849-6000.

Kennedy, David M. "Neighborhood Revitalization: Lessons from Savannah and Baltimore." National Institute of Justice Journal (August 1996).

Moore, Mark H. "Problem Solving and Community Policing: A Preliminary Assessment of New Strategies of Policing." In Modern Policing, ed. Norval Morris and Michael Tonry. Crime and Justice, no. 15. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Moore, Mark H., and Anthony A. Braga. "Problem-Solving Policing and Crime Prevention." In Police and Crime Prevention, ed. Per-Olof Wikstrom, Lawrence Sherman, and Wesley Skogan. Boulder, CO: Westview Press (forthcoming).

Sparrow, Malcolm K., Mark H. Moore, and David M. Kennedy. Beyond 911: A New Era for Policing. New York: Basic Books, 1990.

Sparrow, Malcolm K. "Complaints Against Police and Departmental Management: Making the Connection." Police Chief LIX, no. 8 (August 1992).
Earlier version of this article available as Program in Criminal Justice Working Paper 91-05-10.

Thacher, David. "Conflicting Values in Community Policing." Law & Society Review 35, no. 4 (2001).

Thacher, David. "Equity and Community Policing: A New View of Community Partnerships." Criminal Justice Ethics 20, no. 1 (Winter/Spring 2001).

Wakeling, Stewart, Miriam Jorgensen, and Susan Michaelson. "Policing on American Indian Reservations." National Institute of Justice Journal (January 2001).

Wakeling, Stewart, Miriam Jorgensen, Susan Michaelson, and Manley Begay. Policing on American Indian Reservations. National Institute of Justice Research Report. July 2001.

Wilson, James Q., and George L. Kelling. "Broken Windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety." The Atlantic 249, no. 3 (March 1982).

Other Resources

National Center for Community Policing at Michigan State University

Community Oriented Policing Services

Community Policing Consortium

Police Executive Research Forum

Police Foundation

  


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