Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)

• COPS - the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services is the office of the U.S. Department of Justice that advances the practice of community policing in America's state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies.

• Acquaintance Rape of College Students

• Addressing School-Related Crime and Disorder

• Assigning Police Officers to Schools

• Because Things Happen Every Day: Responding to Teenage Victims of Crime

• Bomb Threats in Schools

• Bridging the Trust Gap Between Law Enforcement and Communities of Color Toolkit

  • Published in 2017

  • The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice's, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office), presents, Bridging the Trust Gap Between Law Enforcement and Communities of Color, a toolkit for law enforcement agencies.

  • The Toolkit is organized into four sections

    • Policing for Progress

    • Steps to Building Trust

    • Sample Community Surveys

    • IACP and COPS Office Resources

• Bullying in Schools

  • Perhaps more than any other school safety problem, bullying affects students' sense of security. The most effective ways to prevent or lessen bullying require school administrators' commitment and intensive effort, police interested in increasing school safety can use their influence to encourage schools to address the problem. This guide provides police with information about bullying in schools, its extent and its causes, and enables police to steer schools away from common remedies that have proved ineffective elsewhere, and to develop ones that will work.

• Campus Threat Assessment Case Studies

  • This guide is a training tool to assist campus threat assessment teams with self-guided opportunities to develop, refine, and enhance their behavioral threat assessment processes. Its design will help teams ensure they have a working knowledge of the nature and process of violence, how to identify persons at risk, reporting and assessing concerns, and resolving situations through compassionate and effective approaches.

• Child Abuse and Neglect in the Home

• Collaboration Toolkit: How to Build, Fix & Sustain Productive Partnerships

  • The Collaboration Toolkit is designed as a guide for law enforcement agencies and their partners as they develop, fix, and sustain productive law enforcement/community partnerships supporting the advancement of community policing. The toolkit can assist law enforcement personnel working with citizen groups, community-based organizations, school personnel, youth, government officials, and others to implement and advance community policing in schools and communities.

• Crime Prevention Research Review: Scared Straight and Other Juvenile Awareness Programs for Preventing Juvenile Delinquency

  • Programs like "Scared Straight" involve organized visits to prison facilities by juvenile delinquents or children at risk for becoming delinquent. The programs are meant to deter participants from future offending by providing first-hand observations of prison life and interaction with adult inmates. Results of this review indicate that these programs not only fail to deter crime but also actually lead to more offending behavior. Government officials permitting this program need to adopt rigorous evaluation to ensure they are not causing more harm to the very citizens they pledge to protect.

• Drug Endangered Children Guide for Law Enforcement

• Graffiti

• Gun Violence Among Serious Young Offenders

• A Parent's Quick Reference Card: Recognizing and Preventing Gang Involvement | en Español

• Planning and Managing Security for Major Special Events: Guidelines for Law Enforcement

  • For law enforcement executives, command staff, and trainers involved in, or providing training in, managing special events in their communities, the safety and security of the event itself, the people who attend the event, as well as the surrounding community, are of the utmost importance. The guide covers all aspects of pre-event planning, security needs during the event, and post-event activities. Topics covered include threat and risk assessments, intelligence, staffing needs and resources, communications, access control and credentialing, traffic and transportation, logistics, training, and public information, hazardous materials, critical infrastructure, demonstrations, and security management.

• Recruiting and Retaining Officers In Small And Rural Agencies

  • In December 2019, the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services held a day-long forum to discuss the challenges of law enforcement recruitment and retention and specifically focused on these issues in relation to smaller and more rural law enforcement agencies. The 32 participants included police chiefs, captains, lieutenants, academic experts, researchers, and agency directors of state police standards.

  • The forum's small size allowed for a wide-ranging discussion that focused on the qualities that make an effective police officer, an in-depth examination of why people leave a department, the most significant challenges to recruiting and retaining officers, and a brainstorming session on the range of strategies these departments use to attract and keep officers. The result was an exchange of ideas and success stories that reflected the unique regional and size differences between the departments.

• School Vandalism and Break-Ins

• Spectator Violence in Stadiums

• SRO Performance Evaluation: A Guide To Getting Results

• The Stop Snitching Phenomenon: Breaking the Code of Silence

• Strategies to Address Gang Crime: A Guidebook for Local Law Enforcement

• Student Party Riots

• Supporting Safe Schools - Information for School Resource Officers

• Teen Action Toolkit: Building a Youth-Led Response to Teen Victimization

• Traffic Congestion around Schools

  • This guide is written for police, not because they are the biggest stakeholders in solving traffic congestion problems, but because they are often one of the first to be called when traffic congestion develops around schools. Police are more likely to be contacted only after tensions have developed among residents, school staff, and parents over responsibility for congestion. Police are in a unique position to serve as mediator between these groups, helping them to seek common ground in developing and implementing effective solutions and ultimately making their jobs easier by reducing the number of calls for service generated by congestion, and the traffic violations and traffic safety issues that often accompany it.

• Underage Drinking

School Crime Operations Package (School COP)

• School COP is a free software application developed by Abt Associates for the National Institute of Justice. It helps schools analyze and map incidents that occur in and around schools. The software can be used to support problem-solving efforts designed to increase school safety. In addition to downloading the actual software, please see the accompanying final report and U.S. Department of Justice COPS Office Guide to Using School COP to Address Student Discipline Problems.

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