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Immigrant Communities

In this podcast, Robin Martinson, a community liaison with the Brooklyn Park Police Department shares some practical tips when doing outreach to multicultural communities. Read More...

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Immigrant Communities

In this podcast, we are joined by Officer Sergio Fidelis of the Clearwater Police Department, which has several practices featured in our report. Officer Fidelis is currently the Hispanic Liaison Officer and has an office in the Hispanic Outreach Center, known as the HOC. Read More...

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Immigrant Communities

In this podcast, we are joined by Monique Drier of the Brooklyn Center Police Department in Minnesota. Monique is the department's community liaison and has worked on various aspects of the Joint Community Police Partnership known as the JCPP. Read More...

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Immigrant Communities

In this podcast, we are joined by Chief Brian Kyes of the Chelsea Police Department in Massachusetts. Chief Kyes has 25 years of law enforcement experience and he's here to talk about police in community roles in addressing hot button issues, including policing in immigrant communities. Read More...

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Community Policing in Homeland Security

Detective Douglas Comfort, with the Criminal Investigations Bureau of the Fairfax County Police Department, has been a sworn law enforcement officer for over 30 years and is responsible for the investigation of offenses related to domestic and international terrorism for Fairfax County. Read More...

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119th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police

Representatives of the COPS Office will join law enforcement officials from across the country at the 119th Annual IACP Conference between September 29th – October 3rd. Even if you cannot be there in-person, you can join us by signing up to receive daily e-mail updates from COPS. sign up

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Juvenile Reentry, Part II

This podcast is part II of the juvenile reenty topic. Dr. David Altschuler, a principal research scientist with Johns Hopkins University and a national reentry expert discusses is back with us
to continue the discussion. Read More...

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Juvenile Reentry, Part I

In this two part podcast, Dr. David Altschuler, a principal research scientist with Johns Hopkins University and a national reentry expert discusses juvenile reentry. Part II of this podcast delves further into the topic. Read More...

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VCPI’s Community Policing Leadership Conference 2012 –November 15-16 – Roanoke, Virginia will focus on purposeful leadership skills and capacities that fuel community policing and make it operative in today’s demanding environment. Read More...

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COPS Announces Awards for Innovative Policing Projects

The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) today announced awards totaling more than $6.5 million under the Community Policing Development grant program, which funds a broad range of projects intended to advance community policing practices. Read More...

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Public Safety De-escalation Tactics for Military Veterans

In this podcast, Wayne Shellum, Training Services Director of the Upper Midwest Community Policing Institute, discusses public safety de-escalation tactics for military veterans in crisis. Read More...

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Exploring the Role of the Police in Prisoner Reentry

Greater involvement of the police in prisoner reentry can promote public safety through more focused problem-oriented policing efforts and increase police legitimacy. Read More...

 

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