Promising Strategies from the Field: A National Overview

This COPS Innovations piece highlights specific projects and the progress of American law enforcement agencies that received COPS grants and the impact COPS helped make on their communities. Promising Strategies from the Field focuses on ways COPS grantees operationalize and institutionalize community policing strategies to reduce crime and improve communication between law enforcement and the communities in their jurisdictions. It features innovative practices and problem-solving projects by 11 grantees, each of which illustrates effective community policing.