Compendium: Community Policing and Procedural Justice in Jails, Part 1 – Adapting Community-oriented Policing Strategies and Procedural Justice for Jail Communities

Excerpt:  “The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) of the U.S. Department of Justice has defined community-oriented policing (COP) as a ‘philosophy that promotes strategies that support the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues, such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime.’ … Today, almost three decades later, COP is clearly widespread in law enforcement. However, former Fresno (California) Sergeant David Kurtze asserted that ‘Far too often, local jails are left out of the picture, when they should be identified as the missing piece of the community-policing paradigm.’ This important assertion raised awareness of this gap and underscored the fact that jails are indeed communities.”