The COPS Office is an essential resource for members of law enforcement looking for the smartest approaches to preventing and reducing crime. The COPS Office works with leading researchers, practitioners, and trailblazers to get effective strategies out to the field. COPS Office resources include:

• Publications: The COPS Office produces hundreds of guidebooks, white papers, and publications on the most successful proactive methods for improving public safety. The complete archive of COPS Office publications can be accessed through the Resource Center.
• Community Policing Dispatch: The COPS Office's monthly e-newsletter.
• The Beat: The COPS Office's monthly podcast series.
• Be On The Look Out: Short, easy-to-read bulletins highlighting COPS Office community policing development projects.

We've compiled our publications on key community policing topics for quick and comprehensive reference: Alternatives to Incarceration Child and Youth Safety Community Partnerships Drugs Ethics and Integrity Healing Communities Homeland Security Officer Safety and Wellness Organizational Transformation Problem Solving

COPS Office projects that are “helping the field advance the field”: Campbell Collaboration Crime and Justice Group (CCJG) Community Policing Self-Assessment Tool (CP-SAT) Community Policing Outreach and Sharing Not in Our Town (NIOT)