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COPS Office Publications

The COPS Office publishes materials for law enforcement and community stakeholders to use in collaboratively addressing crime and disorder challenges. These free publications provide you with best practice approaches and give you access to collective knowledge from the field. Below you can find some recent and featured publications related to CIT available in the COPS Office Resource Center.
Abstract: The Minority Youth Violence Prevention Initiative seeks to engage public health organizations, law enforcement agencies, schools, juvenile justice agencies, and community-based groups to curb violence in minority communities across the United States and reduce disparities in access to public health. In conjunction with a COPS Office-funded report that identified challenges and lessons learned at nine sites funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Center for Court Innovation has prepared this toolkit to help organizations design and implement youth violence prevention programs of their own.
The Beat Podcasts

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Community Policing Dispatch Articles

Additional Resources, Guides, Toolkits and Trainings
The Collaborative Reform Initiative Technical Assistance Center (CRI-TAC) program provides critical and tailored technical assistance resources to state, local, territorial, and tribal law enforcement agencies on a wide variety of topics, including de-escalation, crisis intervention, officer safety and wellness, and community engagement. It features a “by the field, for the field” approach while delivering individualized technical assistance using leading experts in a range of public safety, crime reduction, and community policing topics. CRI-TAC is a public service and offered at no-cost to law enforcement.
CRI-TAC partnered with LEIC to develop an Applied De-escalation Tactics training program. The training provides law enforcement personnel the necessary tools and skills to de-escalate a situation. Training participants learn the foundations of de-escalation and apply skills through practice scenario-based situations either in a simulator or through role play. This training program incorporates a two-day direct training followed by a one-day train-the-trainer.
CRI-TAC is delivering this training upon request.