On November 14, 2016, Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates delivered the annual Noreen E. McNamara Memorial Lecture at Fordham University School of Law in New York City, New York. Her opening remarks focused on the continuing efforts of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to support criminal justice reform across all aspects of the criminal justice system.
On October 17, the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) launched the Police-Mental Health Collaboration (PMHC) Toolkit, an online resource that will help law enforcement agencies work with mental health providers to respond to people with mental illnesses effectively and appropriately. The toolkit builds on the real-life experiences of law enforcement officers to offer best practices, data, sample procedures, checklists, and other tools to help agencies plan, implement, train, manage, and measure PMHC programs.
Register to join the Violence Reduction Network (VRN) webinar, “Insight Policing” on Thursday, October 27 from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. ET. This webinar will provide law enforcement officials with an overview of the Insight Policing training program available from George Mason University (GMU).
The Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Diagnostic Center recently published a blog titled, “Police are the Public and the Public are the Police: Building Trust in Twenty First Century Community Policing.” The blog, written by Steve Rickman of SER Associates, reveals the emerging challenges that face police departments in this new era of policing as well as the probable reasons for those challenges.