Community Oriented Policing : Background and Issues.

Intro -- COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING: BACKGROUND AND ISSUES -- COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING: BACKGROUND AND ISSUES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES (COPS): CURRENT LEGISLATIVE ISSUES -- SUMMARY -- BACKGROUND1 -- CURRENT LEGISLATIVE ISSUES -- Violent Crime and the Impact of Additional Law Enforcement Officers and COPS Grants on Crime -- Violent Crime Trends -- Impact of Law Enforcement Officers on Crime Rates -- Impact of COPS Grants on Crime Rates -- The Government Accountability Office (2005) -- William N. Evans and Emily G. Owens (2007) -- David B. Muhlhausen (2006) -- Policy Implications -- Did COPS Hiring Grants Increase the Number of Police Officers? -- Are COPS Hiring Grants Cost-Effective? -- Limitation on the Amount Awarded for Hiring Grants -- Requirement to Distribute Hiring Grants between Large and Small Agencies and amongst all Qualifying States -- Simulation Results -- Policy Implications -- Structural and Programmatic Overlap of COPS and OJP -- Structural Overlap -- APPENDIX B. INDIVIDUAL SIMULATION RESULTS -- APPENDIX C. BREAKDOWN OF COPS FUNDING -- APPENDIX D. SERVICES OJP PROVIDES FOR COPS -- Programmatic Overlap -- Policy Implications -- COPS Authorization versus Appropriations -- APPENDIX A. SIMULATION METHODS -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 COMMUNITY POLICING DEFINED -- COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS -- ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION -- PROBLEM SOLVING -- COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS -- Other Government Agencies -- Community Members/Groups -- Nonprofits/Service Providers -- Private Businesses -- Media -- ORGANIZATIONAL TRANSFORMATION -- Agency Management -- Climate and culture -- Leadership -- Labor relations -- Decision-making -- Strategic planning -- Policies -- Organizational evaluations -- Transparency -- Organizational Structure -- Geographic assignment of officers -- Despecialization.

Resources and finances -- Personnel -- Recruitment, hiring, and selection -- Personnel supervision/evaluations -- Training -- Information Systems (Technology) -- Communication/access to data -- Quality and accuracy of data -- PROBLEM SOLVING -- Scanning: Identifying and Prioritizing Problems -- Analysis: Researching What is Known about the Problem -- Response: Developing Solutions to Bring about Lasting Reductions in the Number and Extent of Problems -- Assessment: Evaluating the Success of the Responses -- Using the Crime Triangle to Focus on Immediate Conditions (Victim/Offender/ Location) -- Chapter 3 COMMUNITY POLICING: LOOKING TO TOMORROW -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- SECTION I: ROUNDTABLE FINDINGS -- Community Policing Today -- The 10 Principles of Community Policing -- Current Challenges to Community Policing -- Departmental Challenges -- Challenge 1: Recruitment, Hiring, and Retention -- Challenge 2: Reinforcing Community Policing -- Challenge 3: Inability to Institute Change -- Community Challenges -- Challenge 4: Disengaged Communities -- Municipality Challenges -- Challenge 5: Funding Shortfalls -- Challenge 6: Politics of Public Safety -- Challenge 7: Poor Collaboration between Local Government Agencies -- Nationwide Challenges -- Challenge 8: Policymaking -- Challenge 9: Making the Case for "Community Policing" -- Challenge 10: Traditional and Nontraditional News Media -- Advancing Community Policing -- Summary of Findings -- SECTION II: NEXT STEPS IN COMMUNITY POLICING -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT PERF -- ABOUT COPS -- APPENDIX: ROUNDTABLE MEETING PARTICIPANTS -- End Notes -- Chapter 4 COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES (COPS): BACKGROUND, LEGISLATION AND FUNDING -- SUMMARY -- BACKGROUND -- LEGISLATION IN THE 111TH CONGRESS -- The COPS Improvement Act of 2009.

Amendments to the Current COPS Single-Grant Program -- Additional COPS Grant Programs -- Amendments to Grant Award and Use Conditions -- Amendments to Renewal Conditions -- Reauthorization of COPS Appropriations -- New Grant Compliance Enforcement Conditions -- Amendments to Non-supplanting Conditions -- Required Studies of the COPS Program -- Enhanced Violent Crime Community Policing Act of 2009 -- Community Oriented Policing Services and Key Investments in Developmental Services Act of 2009 -- COPS FUNDING -- APPENDIX. COPS FUNDING HISTORY -- End Notes -- Chapter 5 INNOVATIONS IN POLICE RECRUITMENT AND HIRING: HIRING IN THE SPIRIT OF SERVICE -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. HISTORY OF THE PROJECT -- Objectives of the Report -- History of the Project -- Five Demonstration Sites -- HSS Initial Project Objectives -- 2. OVERVIEW OF LAW ENFORCEMENT SELECTION HISTORY -- Brief History of Recruiting and Selecting Police Candidates -- 100,000 New Cops on the Beat -- Objective of HSS as a Major Change Effect -- HSS Implementation Strategies -- 3. CASE STUDIES -- SELECTING AND SUPPORTING DEMONSTRATION SITES -- CASE STUDIES OF SITES: REAL-WORLD STORIES -- Sacramento Police Department-A Call to Serve -- History of the Project -- Steering Committee -- Project Goals -- Use of Focus Groups: Recruitment, Community Outreach, and Marketing -- Unique Accomplishments -- Unique Challenges -- Future of HSS in the Sacramento Police Department -- Burlington Police Department: Work That Matters -- History of the Project -- Project Goals -- Unique Accomplishments -- Unique Challenges -- Future of HSS in Burlington -- Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office-Courage, Integrity, Compassion: Could You Answer the Call? -- History of the Project -- Project Goals -- Research team -- Changing Recruitment through Marketing -- Unique Accomplishments.

Unique Challenges -- Future of HSS in Hillsborough County -- City of Detroit Police Department: Give Back. Get More -- History of the Project -- Project Goals -- Unique Accomplishments -- Unique Challenges -- Future of HSS in Detroit -- King County Sheriff's Office: Accept the Challenge -- History of the Project -- Project Goals -- Identified Job Functions for KCSO Sheriff's Deputies -- Developing Core Competencies of Service Oriented Deputies -- Occupational and Clinical Screening -- Compensatory Selection Model -- Marketing and Recruiting -- Organizational Change -- Unique Accomplishments -- Unique Challenges -- Future of HSS in King County -- 4. COMMONALITIES ACROSS HSS SITES -- Support of the Law Enforcement Chief Executive -- Steering Committees -- Checks and Balances -- Community Engagement -- Use of Focus Groups -- Marketing/Outreach -- Institutionalizing Community Involvement -- Use of Consultants -- Involvement of Unions -- Psychological and Occupational Testing -- 5. HSS LESSONS LEARNED -- Pre-employment Research Is Serious Business and Decidedly Complex -- Involving the Community-Not as Easy as It Sounds -- Creating the Internal-External Balance -- Identifying a Common Core of Service-Oriented Traits -- Access to Personnel Data Created Common Issues -- Personnel Tracking Systems -- Incompatible Information Systems -- Institutional Review Board (IB) -- Web-Based Recruitment and Hiring -- Overcoming Impediments to Enhance Diversity -- Mentoring-A Necessary Adjunct When Recruiting for Diversity -- MENU OF PROMISING PRACTICES -- Identifying, Recruiting, Retaining the Service-Oriented Recruit -- What Should Recruits Look Like to Do Community Policing -- Marketing-How to Get the Message Out: Finding and Attracting Service- Oriented Recruits -- Laying the Groundwork to Enhance Diversity -- Service-Oriented Selection Procedures.

Engaging the Community in the HSS Process -- Follow-Up to Institutionalize HSS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- Ellen Scrivner, Ph.D. -- ABOUT THE COMMUNITY POLICING CONSORTIUM -- What Is the Community Policing Consortium? -- How Is the Consortium funded? -- What Is the mission of the Consortium? -- What Types o Services Does the Consortium Offer? -- ABOUT THE COPS OFFICE -- APPENDIX A: CALIFORNIA COMMISSION ON POST PATROL OFFICER PSYCHOLOGICAL SCREENING DIMENSIONS -- Dimension 1: Social Competence -- Positive Behaviors -- Counterproductive Behaviors -- Dimension 2: Teamwork -- Positive Behaviors -- Counterproductive Behaviors -- Dimension 3: Adaptability/ Flexibility -- Positive Behaviors -- Counterproductive Behaviors -- Dimension 4: Conscientiousness/ Dependability -- Positive Behaviors -- Counterproductive Behaviors -- Dimension 5: Impulse Control/Attention to Safety -- Positive Behaviors -- Counterproductive Behaviors -- Dimension 6: Integrity/ Ethics -- Positive Behaviors -- Counterproductive Behaviors -- Dimension 7: Emotional Regulation and Stress Tolerance -- Positive Behaviors -- Counterproductive Behaviors -- Dimension 8: Decision-Making and Judgment -- Positive Behaviors -- Counterproductive Behaviors -- Dimension 9: Assertiveness/Persuasiveness -- Positive Behaviors -- Counterproductive Behaviors -- Dimension 10: Avoiding Substance Abuse and Other Risk-Taking Behavior -- Counterproductive Behaviors -- Dimension 11: Commitment to Service/Social Concern -- Positive Behaviors -- Counterproductive Behaviors -- APPENDIX B: A REPORT ON FINDINGS FROM FOCUS GROUPS OF SACRAMENTO FEMALE AND MINORITY POLICE OFFICERS SACRAMENTO POLICE DEPARTMENT -- Purpose -- Methodology -- Minority Police Officers, mixed gender -- Statment of Limitations -- Executive Summary -- Key Findings -- Executive Summary -- Strategic Summary -- Becoming a Police Officer.

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