1. The Beginning
2. What We Do
1. Research
2. Professional Services
3. Communications
3. Forty Years as a Catalyst for Change
1. Research Highlights
2. Police Conduct
3. Community Policing
4. Special Projects
4. Collaboration
5. Sources of Support

1. Early-Warning Systems for Law Enforcement

1. About the Police Foundation - 2-page backgrounder on the foundation
2. Hubert Williams - biography of the foundation president and spokesman

1. Law Enforcement Leaders to Discuss How Local Immigration Enforcement Challenges Public Safety Mission: Press Conference to Feature Findings, Implications of Groundbreaking New Police Foundation Report
• Press Conference (video)
2. Call for Congressional Action to Get “Cop Killer” Gun Off the Streets
3. America’s Police Chiefs Say Drugs a Bigger Problem than Terrorism
4. Questioned Documents in Law Enforcement Investigations: From the Unabomber to Anthrax, January 2002
   Read or download Policing Anonymity.
5. U.S. Police Views on Abuse of Authority Reported, July, 2001
6. Police Foundation to Examine Racial Profiling by Kansas Law Enforcement Agencies, March 12, 2001.
7. Statement on National Police Practices and Civil Rights, June 16, 2000.
8. Drug War Claiming Entire Generation of Young Blacks, USA Today, July 27, 1993
9. End the Domestic Arms Race, Washington Post, March 26, 1997
10. Police Foundation Releases Most Comprehensive Information To-date on America’s Private Stock of Firearms, May 5, 1997
11. Police Foundation Urges Agencies to Continue Background Checks on Handgun Purchases in Wake of Supreme Court Decision on the Brady Law, June 27, 1997
12. In Police Foundation address, noted criminologist Lawrence Sherman cites the need for national compliance with crime reporting standards, March 17, 1998.
    Read or download Evidence-Based Policing.
13. Statement in support of HR 939, legislation to eliminate sentencing disparities for crack and powder cocaine, March 25, 1999.
14. There are six characteristics that Americans associate with good policing, writes criminologist Stephen Mastrofski in Policing For People, the third monograph in the Police Foundation’s Ideas in American Policing series, April 9, 1999.
    Read or download Policing For People.
15. Drugs and Crime Across America: Police Chiefs Speak Out presents the results of a Peter D. Hart Research Associates survey of more than 300 police chiefs across the nation who are on the "front lines" in dealing with drug abuse and drug crime. This was a joint project of the Police Foundation and Drug Strategies.
    
    

1. Books by other presses

COMMUNITY POLICING (SEE PRACTICES & STRATEGIES)

Compstat and Organizational Change in the Lowell Police Department: Challenges and Opportunities (10.2KB)

Compstat in Practice: An In-Depth Analysis of Three Cities (705KB)

Growth of Compstat in American Policing (211 KB)

Crime Mapping News

Crime Mapping & Problem Analysis Publications

• Advanced Problem Analysis, Crime Analysis, and Crime Mapping Training Curriculum
• Crime Analysis Case Studies
• Crime Analysis and Crime Mapping Information Clearinghouse 2006 (8th Edition)
• Crime Analysis and Mapping Product Templates
• Crossing the Borders of Crime: Factors Influencing the Utility and Practicality of Interjurisdictional Crime Mapping
• Frequently Asked Questions of Crime Analysis and Mapping
• Guidelines to Implement and Evaluate Crime Analysis and Mapping in Law Enforcement
• Integrated Intelligence and Crime Analysis: Enhanced Information Management for Law Enforcement Leaders
• Integrating Community Policing and Computer Mapping: Assessing Issues and Needs Among COPS Office Grantees
• Introductory Guide to Crime Analysis and Mapping
• Manual of Crime Analysis Map Production
• Mapping for Community-Based Prisoner Reentry Efforts: A Guidebook for Law Enforcement Agencies and Their Partners
• Mapping in Police Agencies: Beyond This Point There Be Monsters
• Problem Analysis in Policing
• User Guide to Mapping Software for Police Agencies

Selecting the Best Analyst for the Job: A Model Crime Analyst Assessment Process for Law Enforcement Agencies

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

The Course of Domestic Abuse Among Chicago's Elderly: Risk Factors, Protective Behaviors, and Police Intervention (197 KB)

The Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment (266 KB)

Richmond’s Second Responders: Partnering with Police Against Domestic Violence (266 KB)

Preventing Repeat Incidents of Family Violence: A Randomized Field Test of a Second Responder Program in Redlands, California (191 KB)

Spouse Abuse Research Raises New Questions About Police Response to Domestic Violence (194 KB)

Drugs and Crime Across America: Police Chiefs Speak Out (2004) (231 KB)

Drugs and Crime Across America: Police Chiefs Speak Out (1996) (146 KB)

Guns in America: Results of a Comprehensive National Survey on Firearms Ownership and Use (9.4 MB)

Prelude to Project Safe Neighborhoods: The Richmond, Virginia, Experience (192 KB)

An Assessment of the Preparedness of Private Security in Shopping Malls to Prevent and Respond to Terrorist Attack (497 KB)

Integrated Intelligence and Crime Analysis: Enhanced Information Management for Law Enforcement Leaders (4.3 MB)

IDEAS IN AMERICAN POLICING

IMMIGRATION

Immigration Resources (120KB)

Role of Local Police: Striking a Balance Between Immigration Enforcement and Civil Liberties

The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment (Summary Report) (336 KB)

Police Departments as Learning Laboratories (140 KB)

Policing For People (57KB)

Reconciling Higher Educational Standards and Minority Recruitment: the New York City Model (251 KB)

Women on the Move? A Report on the Status of Women in Policing (414 KB)

POLICE FOUNDATION REPORTS

PRACTICES & STRATEGIES

Catching Career Criminals: The Washington, DC, Repeat Offender Project (232 KB)

Evidence-Based Policing (87KB)

Law Enforcement for Lawabiders (117KB)

A Multijurisdictional Assessment of Traffic Enforcement and Data Collection in Kansas (1.21 MB)

On Democratic Policing (43KB)

Place-Based Policing (439 KB)

Police Departments as Learning Laboratories (140 KB)

The Police Foundation Displacement and Diffusion Study (800 KB)

Policing Anonymity (108KB

Policing For People (57KB)

Policing in America: Assessment and Prospects (40KB)

Problem Analysis in Policing (621 KB)

The Quality of Police Arrest Statistics (275 KB)

Reducing Fear of Crime in Houston and Newark (420 KB)

Translating Police Research into Practice (741 KB)

Crime Mapping News

Ideas in American Policing

Police Foundation Reports

Research Briefs - 2-page summaries of selected foundation research

• Arresting Shoplifters
  
• Catching Career Criminals
  
• The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment
  
• The Newark Foot Patrol Experiment
  
• Police Responses to Domestic Violence
  
• Police Strategies to Reduce Citizen Fear of Crime
  
• Policewomen on Patrol

USE OF FORCE

Officer Behavior in Police-Citizen Encounters: A Descriptive Model and Implications for Less-than-Lethal Alternatives (286 KB)

Police Pursuits After Scott v Harris: Far from Ideal? (260 KB)

Social Theory and the Street Cop: The Case of Deadly Force (116KB)