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Community Policing: How to Get Started

Summary
Supplementing their original work on the topic, the authors detail the action steps required to implement this new policing strategy. The book includes a number of checklists, letters and questionnaires which should greatly assist those planning for or in the midst of implementing Community Oriented Policing within their jurisdiction.

Community Policing: A Contemporary Perspective 2nd Edition

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Community Oriented Policing is without question the major topic of discussion within most law enforcement management circles. The authors carefully articulate why traditional police strategies and operating practices are doomed to failure and elaborate on the methods, rationale, and potential for success embodied in Community Policing.

The Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic
William W. Bratton With Peter Knobler

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When Bill Bratton was sworn in as New York City's police commissioner in 1994, he made what many considered a bold promise: The NYPD would fight crime in every borough...and win. It seemed foolhardy; even everybody knows you can't win the war on crime. But Bratton delivered. In an extraordinary twenty-seven months, serious crime in New York City went down by 33 percent, the murder rate was cut in half--and Bill Bratton was heralded as the most charismatic and respected law enforcement official in America.. In this outspoken account of his news-making career, Bratton reveals how his cutting-edge policing strategies brought about the historic reduction in crime.

Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities

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With stories of crime reduction in cities from New York to Seattle, "Fixing Broken Windows" demonstrates that controlling disorderly behavior is the key to preventing serious crimes.

The Police in the Community: Strategies for the 21st Century

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Focuses on police involvement and interaction with the communities they serve. Gives a historical perspective to community policing, examines it as a philosophy, and introduces the skills criminal justice professionals need to implement an effective community policing program.

Community Policing: Classical Readings

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Assembles articles written over the 20-year history of the approach to policing. They include early academic works, such as Broken Windows by Wilson and Kelling and Improving Policing by Goldstein, as well as accounts by police officers reporting their insights and experience, and many of the early federal documents that departments throughout the US have used to help them establish programs.

Community Policing and Problem Solving: Strategies and Practices 2ND

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Combining both community-policing and problem-oriented policing concepts, this book explains the processes and terms, what they mean and how they are applied, as well as how they are implemented and evaluated. The book exposes readers to such timely and important topics as re-engineering public service, police-minority relations, and more.

Community Policing: Contemporary Readings

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This collection of individual articles examines the history and current status of Community Policing from several perspectives important to both academicians and practitioners. Additional discussions look to the future evolution of Community Policing.

Planning Community Policing: Goal Specific Cases and Exercises

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Practice decision making through participation in realistic cases. Readers learn skills involving policy-making by utilizing database information provided. Also included are sketches of research efforts in policing in order to provide a foundation for informed planning.

The Challenge of Community Policing: Testing the Promises

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An excellent resource for both the academic and practitioner, this book takes a current look at Community Policing efforts. Relying upon respected scholars who understand the concept and practice of Community Policing, many of the most important issues are identified and discussed.

NYPD Battles Crimes: Innovative Strategies in Policing

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Analyzes the New York City Police Department's (NYPD) high-tech crime fighting strategy, Compstat, and examines 25 years of change and leadership at NYPD, revealing that the Compstat crime control process is not an instant organizational turnaround but instead is the result of a gradual process of organizational change and leadership redirection. Of interest to students of policing and organizational management. Silverman is a professor of law, police science, and criminal justice administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

C. O. P. Talk: Essential Communication Skills for Community Policing

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Helps police officers develop communication skills they need for contemporary policing through practical tips and ?how to? chapters. Developed by a senior police professional to provide strong guidance to police officers required to facilitate a broad range of community informational and problem solving meetings.

Community Oriented Policing: A Systemic Approach to Policing

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This textbook presents Community-Oriented Policing in both a theoretical and applied sense, mixing that which is academic with that which is practical. This textbook comes with an Instructor's Manual and Testbank for the Instructor's use, both written by the author.

How to Recognize Good Policing : Problems and Issues Police Executive Research Forum

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How to Recognize Good Policing focuses on the obstacles, problems, and concerns impacting police reform, and offers direction for formulating an easy-to-understand evaluation method. This tightly edited volume integrates research findings with practical experience, offering a comprehensive study of policing. With its focus on practical problems and gaining results, How to Recognize Good Policing is a must-read for practitioners, policy makers, academics, and researchers, as well as advanced students in related fields of study.

Gender and Community Policing: Walking the Talk

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Gender and Community Policing examines the contradictions that emerge when a traditional, paramilitary institution is challenged to expand its ideology and practice. It provides both a feminist framework for community policing and a fresh examination of how race, gender, and sexual orientation affect police image, identity, and methods.

Urgent Times: Policing and Rights in Inner-City Communities

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Through a searching examination of the constitutional and moral issues of community policing, Tracey Meares and Dan Kahan challenge us to reconsider our ideas about how to fight urban crime and about the role of rights in a democracy. Activists and legal scholars-including Alan Dershowitz and Jean Bethke Elshtain-offer spirited responses.

21st Century Policing: Community Policing: A Guide for Police Officers and Citizens

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A down to earth, right to the point book on how the people and the police can come together in building a positive relationship. Excellent for both citizens and cops

The Politics of Community Policing : Rearranging the Power to Punish

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In an in-depth examination of community policing in Seattle, William Lyons explores the complex issues associated with the establishment and operation of this increasingly popular approach to policing urban communities. Specifically, the author examines the degree to which community policing strengthens those communities most victimized by crime or, conversely, reflects and enhances the power of those already in privileged positions. "The Politics of Community Policing will be of interest to political scientists and sociologists engaged in the study of community power and local politics, criminologists studying police-community relations, and scholars in various fields interested in discursive analysis, social capital, or urban political reform.

Community Policing, Chicago Style

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An in-depth look at the process, problems, and successes associated with the implementation of Community Policing in the second largest municipal police department in the nation.