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Thousands of U.S. law enforcement agencies participate in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program via the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), but many agencies still use the Su...
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The effectiveness of a law enforcement agency and its officers depends enormously on the relationship the agency has forged with the community it serves. Community-police relationships, like all relat...
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Police departments worldwide are facing the challenge of building community trust in an environment of controversial shootings and political polarization. In particular, some community members believe...
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The phrase “building trust” has been the focus of many meetings, conversations, and academic publications on the topic of community policing and engagement with respect to procedural justice. It ...
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According to the U.S. Department of Justice, over half of all violent crimes in the United States go unreported.1 This means that, often, the only way for law enforcement agencies to improve public sa...
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Officer safety efforts, including those to reduce and prevent line-of-duty deaths, are continually of critical importance to the field, officers, and public safety. Two groundbreaking initiatives spea...
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Despite major legal and policy developments on behalf of crime victims since the landmark passage of the Victims of Crime Act in 1984 (VOCA), U.S. federal data collection efforts illustrate that signi...
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For many years, recommendations have been made for law enforcement agencies to form collaborative working relationships with local academic institutions. The benefit of these collaborations to law enf...
