- COPS Office Photo Contest – May Winner
- Stop Hate: Action Steps for Local Communities
- Social Media and Neighborhood-Based Policing Officers: A Path Forward
- The OK Program: A Collaborative Partnership between Law Enforcement and the African-American Community
- Co-Producing Public Safety: Communities, Law Enforcement, and Public Health Researchers Work to Prevent Crime Together
- 2016 COPS Office Solicitations
Co-Producing Public Safety: Communities, Law Enforcement, and Public Health Researchers Work to Prevent Crime Together
Last month, the COPS Office, the California Endowment, and the Center for Court Innovation (CCI) released Co-Producing Public Safety: Communities, Law Enforcement, and Public Health Researchers Work to Prevent Crime Together. Many jurisdictions are seeking ways to prevent violence through a multidisciplinary approach, treating it as a public health issue as well as a crime problem. The COPS Office, CCI, and the California Endowment hosted a roundtable discussion titled “Spreading a Cure for Crime.” Law enforcement executives, public health professionals, and others sat around the table discussing co-producing public safety and recommendations for moving forward. Some of the recommendations that came out of the discussion include the following:
- Learning. Ensuring that as new law enforcement strategies are introduced, they have buy-in not only from the command staff but also all the way down to the rank-and-file officers and civilian staff, structuring law enforcement agencies like teaching hospitals.
- Data. Collaboration is important, but to help better use the collaboration, information sharing is critical.
- Community knowledge. Law enforcement agencies need to know the different cultures and groups within the community.
This publication adds to the current knowledge from previous reports and articles:
- Seeding Change: How Small Projects Can Improve Community Health and Safety
- Law Enforcement and Public Health: Sharing Resources and Strategies for Safer Communities
- Community Policing Dispatch “Spreading a Cure for Crime”
- Community Policing Dispatch “Preventing Harm and Proving a Negative”
- Community Policing Dispatch “Boston Public Health Commission: The Hall web series”
- Community Policing Dispatch “Burbank Mental Health Evaluation Team: A Co-Response Model to the Need for Mental Health Services in the Community
COPS Office Photo Contest – May Winner | Stop Hate: Action Steps for Local Communities| Social Media and Neighborhood-Based Policing Officers: A Path Forward | The OK Program: A Collaborative Partnership between Law Enforcement and the African-American Community | Co-Producing Public Safety: Communities, Law Enforcement, and Public Health Researchers Work to Prevent Crime Together | 2016 COPS Office Solicitations