This publication outlines the Campus Community Policing Partnerships (CCPP) at 3 HBCUs: Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina; Le Moyne-Owen College in Memphis, Tennessee; and Philander-Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. The goal of the CCPP program was to develop and advance innovative community policing strategies and community-supported approaches to prevent crime and gang activity. The program is designed to develop venues and tools to engage police, and campus and community stakeholders in collaborative discussions to identify issues and potential solutions; to identify, implement, test, and document community-supported strategies to reduce violent crime and gang activity in select cities; to identify best practices for the creation of a replicable community model that will be disseminated nationally along with other tools and products; and to develop a replicable internship model that will provide students with knowledge of and experience with community outreach and education efforts to support community policing and to channel students into law enforcement careers The participating HBCUs organized and convened core work groups whose mission was to develop a community policing plan with intervention and preventive measures that addressed and reduced criminal activities. Focus groups identified community concerns regarding violent crime and gang activity. Each HBCU also conducted a community needs assessment. The data collected helped design new strategies to reduce crime on campus and in the surrounding communities. A post-intervention assessment measured the extent to which the COPS program changed how police and community members perceived each other and analyzed whether violent crime was reduced. Tables, figures, and appendix
Campus Community Policing Partnerships at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
NCJ Number
234309
Date Published
2010
Length
74 pages
Annotation
This report describes the methods used to increase collaborative partnerships between the police and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU).
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