A Toolkit for Community-Police Dialogue

Dionne Barnes-Proby, Samuel Peterson, Alexandra Mendoza-Graf, Pierrce Holmes, Danielle Sobol, Nipher Malika, Meagan E. Cahill

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Includes Community-Police Relations: Example Adult Dialogue; Police-Youth Relations: Youth Dialogue Example

Despite widespread recognition that community engagement is important for improving community-police relations, there is little guidance for how to systematically promote and sustain long-term relationship building. This guide was developed to share best practices from the RAND Corporation's work in implementing six community-police dialogues across four sites. This guide provides background on the purpose for the development of the community-police dialogue, guidance for planning and implementing the dialogue, and materials to help carry out the dialogue effectively.

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Barnes-Proby, Dionne, Samuel Peterson, Alexandra Mendoza-Graf, Pierrce Holmes, Danielle Sobol, Nipher Malika, and Meagan E. Cahill, A Toolkit for Community-Police Dialogue, RAND Corporation, TL-A615-1, 2023. As of October 4, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TLA615-1.html
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Barnes-Proby, Dionne, Samuel Peterson, Alexandra Mendoza-Graf, Pierrce Holmes, Danielle Sobol, Nipher Malika, and Meagan E. Cahill, A Toolkit for Community-Police Dialogue. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2023. https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TLA615-1.html.
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This project was funded by both the Lenzner-Coleman Challenge Fund for Criminal Justice Research and the American Arbitration Association-International Centre for Dispute Resolution Foundation and conducted in the Justice Policy Program within RAND Social and Economic Well-Being.

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