Kids, Cops and Communities

Kids, Cops and Communities
Author: Marcia R. Chaiken
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 70
Release: 1999-02
Genre: At-risk youth
ISBN: 0788176285

This report is designed to help law enforcement administrators and officers understand and institute a strategy to help prevent violence -- community-oriented policing services carried out in collaboration with youth-serving organizations. Popular police prevention approaches such as DARE have helped prepare police officers to work hand in hand in a variety of ways with local affiliates of national youth-serving organizations. In a growing number of cities, police are working with youth groups and finding that violence involving youth is rapidly decreasing. The research involved a survey of 579 affiliates of 7 national youth-serving organizations.

Keeping You Safe

Keeping You Safe
Author: Ann Owen
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2004
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781404800892

Describes some of the things that police officers do to help keep people safe.

Police Officers in My Community

Police Officers in My Community
Author: Gina Bellisario
Publisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)
Total Pages: 28
Release: 2018-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541520203

"Follow along as a class meets a police officer and learns what police officers do"--Publisher marketing.

Something Happened in Our Town

Something Happened in Our Town
Author: Marianne Celano
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Total Pages: 23
Release: 2020-06-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1433834685

A NEW YORK TIMES AND #1 INDIEBOUND BEST SELLER #6 on American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom's Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2020 A Little Free Library Action Book Club Selection National Parenting Product Award Winner (NAPPA) Something Happened in Our Town follows two families — one White, one Black — as they discuss a police shooting of a Black man in their community. The story aims to answer children's questions about such traumatic events, and to help children identify and counter racial injustice in their own lives. Includes an extensive Note to Parents and Caregivers with guidelines for discussing race and racism with children, child-friendly definitions, and sample dialogues.

Police Officers

Police Officers
Author: Charnan Simon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781567664768

A simple look at police officers and the many different kinds of work that they do to keep their communities safe.

The Last Neighborhood Cops

The Last Neighborhood Cops
Author: Gregory Holcomb Umbach
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 081354906X

In recent years, community policing has transformed American law enforcement by promising to build trust between citizens and officers. Today, three-quarters of American police departments claim to embrace the strategy. But decades before the phrase was coined, the New York City Housing Authority Police Department (HAPD) had pioneered community-based crime-fighting strategies. The Last Neighborhood Cops reveals the forgotten history of the residents and cops who forged community policing in the public housing complexes of New York City during the second half of the twentieth century. Through a combination of poignant storytelling and historical analysis, Fritz Umbach draws on buried and confidential police records and voices of retired officers and older residents to help explore the rise and fall of the HAPD's community-based strategy, while questioning its tactical effectiveness. The result is a unique perspective on contemporary debates of community policing and historical developments chronicling the influence of poor and working-class populations on public policy making.

Police Officers

Police Officers
Author: Cari Meister
Publisher: Jump!
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1624960340

This photo-illustrated book for early readers gives examples of how police officers fight crime and keep people safe.

Youth Squad

Youth Squad
Author: Tamara Myers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Police services for juveniles
ISBN: 9780773558922

How police surveillance and crime prevention programs became a normal part of modern-day childhood.

Missing Daddy

Missing Daddy
Author: Mariame Kaba
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1642590940

“This book is a crucial tool for parents, educators, and anyone who cares about the well-being of children who, through no fault of their own, are forced to bear the consequences of our country’s obsession with incarceration. For children who desperately miss their parents, feel confused, or are teased at school, this book can go a long way in letting them know that they are not alone and in normalizing their experiences.” —Eve L. Ewing A little girl who misses her father because he's away in prison shares how his absence affects different parts of her life. Her greatest excitement is the days when she gets to visit her beloved father. With gorgeous illustrations throughout, this book illuminates the heartaches of dealing with missing a parent and shows that a little girl's love can overcome her father's incarceration. Mariame Kaba is an educator and organizer based in New York City. She has been active in anti-criminalization and anti-violence movements for the past thirty years. bria royal is a multidiscipliinary artist based in Chicago.