This page provides links to community policing Web sites, the COPS program, and publications related to the COPS Evaluation Study, listed by the following categories:

• Crime Data
• Organizations
• Publications
  • Bibliographies
  • COPS Evaluation
  • Partnerships
  • Programs for Youths

Crime Data

Crime Statistics by NCJRS
Provides a list of resources and links to statistical resources, such as the Uniform Crime Reports.

Organizations

National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
NORC is a nonprofit corporation affiliated with the University of Chicago that conducts survey research in the public interest for government agencies, educational institutions, private foundations, nonprofit organizations, and private corporations. NORC conducted the telephone surveys for the COPS evaluation.

The Urban Institute
The Urban Institute, a nonpartisan economic and social policy research organization, conducted the COPS evaluation with funding from NIJ.

Publications

Bibliographies

Community Policing in Action: Lessons From an Observational Study. FS 000199.
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National COPS Evaluation

National Evaluation of the COPS Program: Title I of the 1994 Crime Act. NCJ 183643.

COPS Program After 4 Years—National Evaluation. NCJ 183644.

National Evaluation of the COPS Program: Ten Case Studies

Partnerships

Business Alliance Program: Creating Business and Community Partnerships. FS 000119.
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Business Alliance: Planning for Business and Community Partnerships Monograph. NCJ 148657.
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Programs for Youths

A Compendium of Programs That Work for Youth
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Kids, Cops, and Communities
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School and Community Interventions To Prevent Serious and Violent Offending
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