Goals and Objectives

The proposed program has the following goals and objectives:

  1. To improve the communication skills of uniform law enforcement officers engaged in community policing.

    2. Objectives:

    a. To design and conduct a series of daylong workshops that would be available to uniform officers in the law enforcement agency

    b. To provide follow-up training programs that build on the daylong workshops, that may include support groups, one-on-one coaching, problem-solving clinics, and advanced skill-training seminars

  2. To provide training opportunities to community leaders to acquire skills that will allow them to communicate more effectively with law enforcement agencies.

    3. Objectives:

    a. To identify and recruit community leaders from every segment of the community, especially racial and ethnic minorities, to participate in a series of daylong workshops on understanding the work of the law enforcement agency and acquiring improved skills in communicating with law enforcement officers

    b. To provide follow-up training programs that build on the daylong workshops, that may include support groups, one-on-one coaching, problem-solving clinics, and advanced skill-training seminars

  3. To develop trained, collaborative police-community teams that would be available to respond to community policing concerns.

    4. Objectives:

    a. To recruit a leadership team of committed police and community leaders who agree to serve as a community resource, leading cooperative, crime-prevention projects and intervening when police-community tensions arise.

    b. To conduct a train-the-trainers program for the leadership team, empowering them to conduct similar programs for groups throughout their communities.

    c. To use the leadership team to facilitate police-community meetings, especially when dealing with potentially volatile issues.

  4. To build national impact by developing the capacity to replicate the project in communities across the United States.

    5. Objectives:

    a. To develop a systematic evaluation of the project in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and King County, Washington with lessons learned that can be shared nationally.

    b. To develop a curriculum that can be taught to dozens of NCBI leaders in cities across the United States.

    c. To offer training classes at national NCBI leadership meetings that will prepare a large cadre of NCBI leaders to be able to replicate the project back home in their local communities.