The Officer of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) is always a great resource for community policing resources, and they have recently released a study on the way that community developers and law enforcement can partner to design and build crime out of their communities.

Building Our Way Out of Crime: The Transformative Power of Police-Community Developer Partnerships is a guide for policymakers to inform them about the power of approaching crime prevention and reduction from a community design perspective. For example, Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Providence, and Minneapolis all saw substantial decreases in crime once implementing this type of program.

Learn more about building your way out of crime by reading the entire publication here: http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/files/RIC/Publications/building.pdf

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