LAW 1528 - Police & The Community - Law Enforcement - LibGuides at Hibbing Community College

Textbooks & Readings

Community and the Justice System by Dave Wymore & Tabitha Raber, Taft College
Publication Date: updated 2021
This textbook was designed especially for Taft Community College Administration of Justice students. The following chapters will cover topics such as: community policing, social dynamics, multiculturalism, society.
Community-Oriented Policing and Technological Innovations by Georgios Leventakis & M. R. Haberfeld
ISBN: 9783319892948
Publication Date: 2018
This book primarily focuses on community-oriented policing and how that has changed with advances in technology, especially in the area of social media.
Societal Implications of Community-Oriented Policing and Technology by Georgios Leventakis & M. R. Haberfeld
ISBN: 9783319892979
Publication Date: 2018
This book focuses on the ways in which police can use technology to engage the community in crowdsourcing information to solve crimes and how law enforcement can use technology to their advantage in criminal investigation.

Law Enforcement Best Practices: Lessons Learned from the Field
The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) examines key areas for community policing. These areas include de-escalation; crisis intervention; first-line supervisors; early intervention systems; internal affairs; recruitment, hiring, promotion, and retention; and data systems.
Community Policing: A Patrol Officer's Perspective
Community policing makes different demands at different levels of an organization. This publication, Community Policing: A Patrol Officer's Perspective, and its companion volume, A First-Line Supervisor's Perspective, illustrate how individual officers and supervisors can implement community policing practices in their agencies. It contains examples of officer-led problem solving and relationship building and guidelines for understanding community policing concepts and practices.
Community Policing: A First-Line Supervisor's Perspective
Community policing makes different demands at different levels of an organization. This publication, Community Policing: A First-Line Supervisor's Perspective, and its companion volume, A Patrol Officer's Perspective, illustrate how individual officers and supervisors can implement community policing practices in their agencies. Drawing on the examples and reflections shared by the participants in a COPS Office working group, it contains examples for how supervisors can lead by example to drive cultural change within their agencies and build community partnerships.

Supplemental Course Materials & Interactive Resources

FA19: American Policing: 15531
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be familiar with the basic issues involved in policing in the United States, will develop an understanding of the key problems and concerns faced by today’s police, and will explore the methods used by the police to address these problems. Students will be able to: 1. Relate law enforcement history from English origins to the United States 2. Recognize how recruitment, training and socialization prepare officers for the streets. 3. Relate methods and menaces of the patrol function 4.Define Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving 5. Recognize what is forensic science and criminalistics. 6. Describe personnel issues and practices as it relates to stress, labor relations, higher education and private police. 7. Define accountability as it relates to ethics, use of force, corruption and discipline for law enforcement officers. 8. Describe the various types of Federal. State and Local agencies as well as their various functions. 9. Recognize Municipal and County agencies and their organization, administration and roles.
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Online course developed by Joseph Guzik, Indiana University, 2020.

COPS Office Resource Center
The COPS Office publishes materials for law enforcement and community stakeholders to use in collaboratively addressing crime and disorder challenges. These free publications provide you with best practice approaches and give you access to collective knowledge from the field.
Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) Library
OVC develops publications and products on emerging victim issues, promising practices, policy development, and technical assistance and skill-building tools.
Office of Violence Against Women (OVW) Publications
The Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) provides federal leadership in developing the national capacity to reduce violence against women and administer justice for and strengthen services to victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.

Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Victims: Downloadable Resources
One of the most effective methods of implementing change is incorporating the core concepts of the Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Victims Strategy into your policies and procedures.
Reducing Gun Violence in Our Communities: A Leadership Guide for Law Enforcement on Effective Strategies and Programs (2011)
This guide provides information about notable programs and policing strategies that can be implemented by law enforcement agencies, regardless of size, in order to enhance the critical and life-saving mission of reducing gun violence. By highlighting innovative approaches developed by law enforcement departments and communities across the country, local leaders are encouraged to expand upon their current efforts in order to create a comprehensive program to enhance community and officer safety.