RECENT RELEASES

The COPS Office publishes materials for law enforcement and community stakeholders to use in collaboratively addressing crime and disorder challenges. These free publications provide you with best practice approaches and give you access to collective knowledge from the field. Below you can find our recent and featured publications, and you can also search the Resource Center or our Community Policing Topics pages for specific issues.

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS

Lessons to Advance Community Policing: Final Report for 2014 Microgrant Sites

In 2013, the COPS Office launched the Microgrant Initiative for Law Enforcement under the Community Policing Development program. This report describes the lessons learned and promising practices that resulted from these microgrant projects.

Improving Law Enforcement Resilence – Lessons and Recommendations

This report provides recommendations for preparing officers for traumatic events and strategies for supporting overall resilience through physical and emotional health.

Sheriffs Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in the Community and in the Jails

BOLO Project Bulletin #8: Development and Validation of a Resilience Training Model at the Academy

A Comparison of Averted and Completed School Attacks from the Police Foundation Averted School Violence Database

A Preliminary Report on the Police Foundation's Averted School Violence Database

Rank and File: Reflections on Emerging Issues in Law Enforcement

Officers' Physical and Mental Health and Safety: Emerging Issues and Recommendations

Animal Cruelty as a Gateway Crime

Risk Management in Law Enforcement: Discussions on Identifying and Mitigating Risk for Officers, Departments, and the Public

Below Ten: Combating Drugs, Guns, and Human Trafficking at the US Southwest Border

Perceptions of Methamphetamine in Indian Country: Interviews with Service Providers in Ten Western Tribes

Civilian Oversight of the Police in Major Cities

Camden's Turn: A Story of Police Reform in Progress; A Guide for Law Enforcement and Community Screenings

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