Community Policing Through Sport – An Outside Approach for Effective Community Engagement

This paper explores lessons learned through the experience, as well as outside research, to establish best practices for how such initiatives may be able to enhance existing community policing concepts. The findings indicate that elements of the Kids & Cops Dream Courts program can be applied to departmental initiatives in multiple ways and lessons learned from it can provide ready examples for departments interested in expanding community efforts.

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Author: COPS Office

Publication Date: May 2023