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Fridell, Lorie A.

Summary: In September of 1991, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded the Police Foundation a grant to conduct a national survey on the extent to which community policing had been adopted by law enforcement agencies across the country. The study, conducted in 1992-1993, was designed to provide information on what was occurring and what needed to occur in the development and implementation of community policing. The study sought to determine how community policing was operationally defined and how it differed from traditional forms of policing. In 1997, ORC Macro International, Inc., and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) conducted a longitudinal follow-up to the previous survey. The 1997 study was designed to provide information on the most current practices and trends in community policing. The survey was based on the survey administered by the Police Foundation in 1992-1993. Parts 1 and 2 of this data collection consist of the quantitative responses by chief executives and police agencies, respectively, to the 1997 survey administered to a nationally representative sample of police agencies. The same survey instrument was also administered to a second sample of chief executives (Part 3) and police agencies (Part 4) that received at least one grant from the Community Oriented Policing Service (COPS) office of the United States Department of Justice. This second sample was designed to supplement the first sample in order to adequately represent police agencies that were involved in community policing. Part 5 consists of the police agency survey data gathered by the Police Foundation in 1992-1993 and reanalyzed by the principal investigators of this study. Part 6 contains the qualitative open-ended responses to questions selected from the 1997 Police Agency Survey (Part 2). Variables in Parts 1 and 3 include whether the top executive was elected or appointed, whether the executive mandated community policing, executive opinions about community policing, the impact of community policing, who should be responsible for conducting community policing, and what influenced the decision to implement community policing. Information is also available on the type of agency represented in the survey and its regional location. Parts 2, 4, and 5 include information about the types of resources that agencies utilized in their approach to law enforcement, organizational programs and practices, the agencies' current situation with respect to community policing, when community policing was implemented, types of administrative policies that had been implemented with respect to community policing, types of training officers received, written policies concerning police interactions with government agencies and citizens, new legislation passed to support community policing, the effects of community policing, types of organizational arrangements in place, specific duties of patrol officers, special units, and civilian personnel, specific responsibilities of captains, lieutenants, and sergeants, types of citizen participation in community policing, numbers of various types of personnel, population of jurisdiction, and type of jurisdiction served. In addition, Parts 2 and 4 contain crime rates for police jurisdictions for murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft. Part 6 contains open-ended responses from the 1997 Police Agency Survey (Part 2) to questions about resources used in the agency's approach to law enforcement, specific types of officer training, specific written policies concerning community policing, lessons learned in the process of making changes in policies or practices, and additional comments to the survey

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01-23-2003

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Title: National Survey of Community Policing Strategies Update, 1997, and Modified 1992-1993 Data

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Fridell, Lorie A.

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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

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Summary: In September of 1991, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded the Police Foundation a grant to conduct a national survey on the extent to which community policing had been adopted by law enforcement agencies across the country. The study, conducted in 1992-1993, was designed to provide information on what was occurring and what needed to occur in the development and implementation of community policing. The study sought to determine how community policing was operationally defined and how it differed from traditional forms of policing. In 1997, ORC Macro International, Inc., and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) conducted a longitudinal follow-up to the previous survey. The 1997 study was designed to provide information on the most current practices and trends in community policing. The survey was based on the survey administered by the Police Foundation in 1992-1993. Parts 1 and 2 of this data collection consist of the quantitative responses by chief executives and police agencies, respectively, to the 1997 survey administered to a nationally representative sample of police agencies. The same survey instrument was also administered to a second sample of chief executives (Part 3) and police agencies (Part 4) that received at least one grant from the Community Oriented Policing Service (COPS) office of the United States Department of Justice. This second sample was designed to supplement the first sample in order to adequately represent police agencies that were involved in community policing. Part 5 consists of the police agency survey data gathered by the Police Foundation in 1992-1993 and reanalyzed by the principal investigators of this study. Part 6 contains the qualitative open-ended responses to questions selected from the 1997 Police Agency Survey (Part 2). Variables in Parts 1 and 3 include whether the top executive was elected or appointed, whether the executive mandated community policing, executive opinions about community policing, the impact of community policing, who should be responsible for conducting community policing, and what influenced the decision to implement community policing. Information is also available on the type of agency represented in the survey and its regional location. Parts 2, 4, and 5 include information about the types of resources that agencies utilized in their approach to law enforcement, organizational programs and practices, the agencies' current situation with respect to community policing, when community policing was implemented, types of administrative policies that had been implemented with respect to community policing, types of training officers received, written policies concerning police interactions with government agencies and citizens, new legislation passed to support community policing, the effects of community policing, types of organizational arrangements in place, specific duties of patrol officers, special units, and civilian personnel, specific responsibilities of captains, lieutenants, and sergeants, types of citizen participation in community policing, numbers of various types of personnel, population of jurisdiction, and type of jurisdiction served. In addition, Parts 2 and 4 contain crime rates for police jurisdictions for murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft. Part 6 contains open-ended responses from the 1997 Police Agency Survey (Part 2) to questions about resources used in the agency's approach to law enforcement, specific types of officer training, specific written policies concerning community policing, lessons learned in the process of making changes in policies or practices, and additional comments to the survey

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