NCJ Number
219959
Date Published
January 2007
Length
51 pages
Annotation
This report presents 50 recommendations drafted by participants of the 2006 national policy summit, organized by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), examining the role law enforcement executives and their agencies should assume in offender reentry efforts.
Abstract
The 50 recommendations drafted by focus groups and affirmed by all summit participants are the basis for a national policy that will ensure law enforcement’s leadership and full engagement within offender reentry efforts. The recommendations were drafted in the following nine areas: asserting leadership, identifying funding, collaborating with community stakeholders, designing offender reentry efforts, training agencies and community partners, educating the public, cultivating public support, evaluating the effectiveness of offender reentry efforts, and promoting promising practices. Every year, roughly 650,000 individuals are released from Federal and State prisons to reenter their communities. Of these 650,000 individuals, nearly two-thirds will be rearrested for a felony or serious misdemeanor within 3 years of their release. With that said, law enforcement’s involvement in offender reentry efforts has remained largely theoretical with the majority of agencies not even participating in offender reentry efforts. To help develop an appropriate law enforcement agenda for offender reentry initiatives, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) organized the 2006 national policy summit. The objective of the summit was to consider the role law enforcement executives and their agencies should assume in offender reentry efforts, recommending that every law enforcement executive in the nation strategically engage their agency in offender reentry efforts. Participants in the summit drafted 50 recommendations. This report presents the comprehensive list of recommendations addressing offender reentry. It provides detailed narratives clarifying the intent of each of the 50 recommendations presented in this report, funded by COPS, in the above listed 9 areas.