Kids, COPS, and Communities

This Issues and Practices report is designed to help law enforcement administrators and officers understand and institute a strategy to prevent violence through community-oriented policing services carried out in collaboration with youth-serving organizations. Descriptions in Kids, COPS, and Communities are based on a LINC study jointly sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The research involved a survey of 579 affiliates of 7 national youth-serving organizations; a panel of experts selected exemplary programs in three cities, as nominated by survey respondents, for onsite studies. The experts selected types of approaches most likely to lessen the risk of kids becoming involved in crime, promote wholesome development, and provide increased protection from delinquency and victimization.