This report, released March 2001 by the Department of Justice, "focuses on changes in the prevalence of community oriented policing policies, programs, and activities." The report finds a significant increase over the last few years in the use of community policing nationwide, with about twice as many departments employing it in 1999 as compared to 1997. Community policing is defined in the press...

A product of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), and written by Brian A. Reaves and Matthew J. Hickman, Police Departments in Large Cities, 1990-2000 "describes trends from 1990 to 2000 among local police departments serving US cities with 250,000 or more residents." Equipped with charts and graphs, the report presents statistical data in crime rate and residents served, female and minority...

The Department of Justice has recently released data concerning encounters between the police and the public. Contacts between Police and the Public: Findings from the 1999 National Survey presents data on the nature and characteristics of citizen contacts with the police over a twelve-month period. "Findings are provided from a nationally representative survey of nearly 90,000 residents age 16 or...