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Community Policing Dispatch Volume 1, Issue 12, December 2008

NCJ Number
226102
Date Published
December 2008
Length
2 pages
Annotation
A snapshot is presented on the latest editions released of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services’ newsletter focusing on the field of community policing.
Abstract
Highlights of recently released issues of the Community Policing Dispatch newsletter include: (1) interview with Carl Peed, director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office); (2) Targeting the Fear of Crime; (3) Crime Mapping Helps Address Drunk Driving; (4) Achieving Results through Innovation: Policing in White Plains, NY; (5) Community Policing Nugget: The Role of Crime Analysis in Patrol Work; (6) Today’s Officer, Tomorrow’s Chief: Police Recruitment and the Millennial Generation; and (7) New from COPS. These issues offer reflections from the COPS office director, new innovative State and local policing programs and technologies, and the future of police recruitment.