Here is a selection of online resources that explore issues related to community-oriented policing.
Baltimore’s Comprehensive Communities Program: A Case Study
Community-oriented policing led to a decrease in crime in Baltimore. This study documents how the work was accomplished.
Case Studies of Community Anti-Drug Efforts
This case study examines 13 grassroots programs to curb drug abuse. It found the most success when community residents joined with the police to combat crime.
Community Building Coming of Age
This 1997 monograph highlights the process of building a close-knit community to reduce crime and improve the quality of life for residents in low-income areas.
Community Development in the 1990’s
This document reports on the collaboration between corporations and charitable foundations to improve the quality of life for inner city residents
Conducting Community Surveys: A Practical Guide for Law Enforcement Agencies
When police learn more about the communities they serve, good things happen. This study shows police departments how to conduct neighborhood surveys to learn more about the community and its residents.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design and Community Policing
This document identifies a new era in policing, one that makes use of the SARA (Scanning, Analyzing, Response, and Assessment.) method to learn about community threats and opportunities.
Creating Defensible Space
This guide shows how to design and furnish public housing projects to reduce crime and disorder. Dayton’s Five Oaks neighborhood is used as example.
Defensibe Space: Deterring Crime and Building Community
A 1995 publication from the Department of Housing and Urban Development that explains how the physical design of buildings and communities can play a role in deterring crime.
Implementation Challenges in Community Policing
This 1996 document examines the experiences in eight cities with community policing.
On Further Developing Problem-Oriented Policing: The Most Critical Need, the Major Impediments, and a Proposal
An article from Crime Prevention Studies that identifies solutions to problems that prevent problem-oriented policing from reaching its “greater potential.”
Open-Air Drug Markets
Learn how to analyze the structure of the drug market with an eye to where it is vulnerable, develop a plan to disrupt business, and eradicate the problem from your community.
Physical Environment and Crime
Can the physical environment be structured to reduce crime? The answer is “yes” in this 27-page study looks at the concept of crime prevention through environmental design.
Reducing Gun Violence: The St. Louis Consent-to-Search Program
St. Louis drastically reduced its homicide rate by getting guns off the streets. Its Consent-to-Search program, begun in 1994, is a big reason for the success.
Understanding Community Justice Partnerships
This study examines the success various community agencies and groups have in partnering with the police to reduce crime.
Understanding Community Policing: A Framework for Action
This landmark 1994 study introduces the concept of community-oriented policing as a method to reduce crime and improve police-community relations.
Youth, Guns, and the Juvenile Justice System
An analysis of statistical trends and policy changes in juvenile justice, including patterns in juvenile arrests, juvenile gun homicides, court cases related to gun violence, and changes in law and statutes.