Community-Police Engagement
Trust and transparency between law enforcement agencies and the people they serve is vital to community stability, officer safety, and effective policing. The IACP wants to help agencies build a solid foundation for that trust. Take advantage of the resources and tools designed to enhance the culture, policies, and practices which will unite agencies with their communities. Learn how to establish trust and legitimacy between your agency and community, collaborate with residents to develop policies and oversight which reflect community values, harness technology and social media to engage and educate community members, and work with residents to implement community policing and crime reduction strategies.
Starting with What Works
The Starting with What Works: Using Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Community and Police Relations brochure lays out practical steps that provide a road map to…
Community-Police Engagement
Police leaders, community members, and elected officials all play a crucial role in moving constructive public safety efforts forward. The tools below provide policy considerations…
Policy Center Resources
See AllCrowd Management
Civil disturbances and demonstrations have changed over the years, as have the tactics and techniques of law enforcement agencies called upon to manage and control...
Interacting with Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Police officers should be trained to recognize, interact, and communicate appropriately with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). When safe and appropriate, this includes leveraging...
Responding to Persons Experiencing a Mental Health Crisis
Responding to situations involving individuals reasonably believed to be persons in crisis (PIC) necessitates an officer to make difficult judgments about the mental state and...
Recording Police Activity
Members of the public, including media representatives, have an unambiguous First Amendment right to record officers in public places, as long as their actions do...
Resources
Building Trust, Reducing Crime: What Procedural Justice Training Means For Hot Spot Policing
This brief discusses how procedural justice training at crime hot spots can reduce arrests, improve officer behavior, and lower crime without eroding public trust. Adapted…
Does Community Policing Work? A Global Meta-Analysis on Crime Reduction
This brief discusses how community policing can reduce rates of burglary, most gun- and drug-related crime, robbery, most Part 1 crimes, and overall fear of…
