Police and Communities: Evaluation of the COPS Program

Drs. Jeffrey Roth and Christopher Koper, joined by a multi-institutional group of researchers under the direction of Dr. Roth, conducted a multi-year assessment of the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, the federal government's $9 billion initiative (enacted in 1994) to add 100,000 police officers to America's communities and promote the philosophy of community policing.

Click to see their most recent reports (2002-2003) on the COPS program's impacts on the level and style of policing in the US.

See http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/ for links to earlier summary and full reports released in 2000.

Click here to view a related study by Dr. Koper and others on hiring and retention in police agencies.

"Hiring and Keeping Police Officers," by Christopher Koper, published by the National Institute of Justice in 2004