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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01xs55mf810| Title: | Operational strategies to build police-community trust and reduce crime in minority communities: The Minneapolis Cedar-Riverside Exploratory Policing Study |
| Contributors: | Police Executive Research Forum |
| Keywords: | Police-community relations—United States Community policing—United States |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| Publisher: | Police Executive Research Forum |
| Place of Publication: | Washington, D.C. |
| Description: | This paper describes a three-and-a-half-year project that took place in the Cedar-Riverside area of Minneapolis that explored a new approach to policing in minority communities. The project’s approach is built on the foundational concepts of procedural justice and legitimacy. The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood provided a unique laboratory for testing the approach in a challenging, real-world setting. Cedar-Riverside has the largest population of East African (primarily Somali) immigrants in the United States, largely resulting from the influx of refugees entering the U.S. in the 1990s. Many residents still speak their native language and follow traditional culture and customs from their homeland. Furthermore, residents’ perceptions of government and particularly the police have been tainted by the corruption and abuse these refugees witnessed or experienced in their native Somalia and other countries. Fear and misunderstanding between East African residents and the criminal justice system in Minneapolis (especially the police) have been and continue to be major challenges. The objective of this project was to test the idea that crime prevention and enforcement efforts of police departments are strengthened when the police actively strive to improve their relationship with the community by using every interaction as an opportunity to demonstrate civil, unbiased, fair, and respectful policing. Given the diversity and unique challenges of Cedar-Riverside, it is believed that if the concepts of procedural justice and legitimacy can be successfully implemented there, they can be applied in a broad range of other communities throughout the United States. |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp01xs55mf810 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-934485-36-1 |
| Related resource: | http://www.policeforum.org/assets/MinneapolisCedarRiverside.pdf |
| Appears in Collections: | Monographic reports and papers (Publicly Accessible) |
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