evan@policegrantwriting.com Course Dates and Registration Information
The next course being offered is on January 27, 2023 from 8am-4pm EST live via Zoom. If your agency requires a direct invoice to remit payment, please email registration@policegrantwriting.com and we are happy to provide one for you.
Cost
| Regular Registration | $249 |
| 5 or more registrants | $199 |
Course Description
Community Policing has been discussed in law enforcement circles for decades. Many police agencies engage in aspects of community policing, but do not address or implement many of the most important components of the philosophy. That’s right, community policing is an organizational philosophy, not a set of tactics. In grant applications, many applicants confuse or conflate the two. In order to put forth the strongest COPS Office community policing hiring grant application in 2023, you must demonstrate that your agency is committed to the adherence of community policing’s strategic, tactical, organizational, and philosophical dimensions. If this seems overly academic and impractical, that is because discussion of these components have largely been discussed in the ivory tower of academia and poorly articulated to actual police officers in the field. This course will de-mystify these and other aspects of community policing to help you craft the strongest community policing grant application that demonstrates your command of the subject matter.
Instructor
Evan Sorg, Ph.D.
Evan is a former New York City Police Officer and Grant Reviewer for the Department of Homeland Security, the owner of Police Grant Writing, and an Associate Professor of Law and Justice Studies at Rowan University where he teaches courses on policing, crime analysis, and crime mapping. Read his full bio here.
Course Schedule
| Topic | Start Time | End Time | Skills/Knowledge Learned |
| The Standard Model of Policing and the Research Revolution of the 1970s | 0800 | 0900 | Identify the three components of the standard model of policing and cite relevant research demonstrating its ineffectiveness |
| Team Policing and Foot Patrol as a Precursor to Community Policing | 0900 | 0945 | Understand Team Policing’s origins and the rise of foot patrol and foot patrol research that paved the way for community policing |
| Morning Break | 0945 | 1000 | — |
| From “Nothing Works” to Rethinking Policing’s Goals | 1000 | 1100 | Understand why American law enforcement agencies moved from a focus on ‘crime control’ to ‘citizen perceptions’ |
| Enter Community Policing | 1100 | 1130 | Understand the early research on and attempts at ‘doing’ community policing |
| The four Dimensions of Community Policing | 1130 | 1230 | Understand the strategic, organizational, tactical, and philosophical dimensions of community policing |
| Lunch | 1230 | 1300 | — |
| Herman Goldstein’s Problem-Oriented Policing | 1300 | 1400 | Learn about Herman Goldstein’s model of problem-oriented policing and how other scholars imbedded the SARA model into community policing |
| Community Policing in Action and the Most Recent Systematic Review | 1400 | 1500 | Review and understand the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS), what outcomes were studied and what the results were; understand what the most recent systematic review of community policing found |
| Pulling it all Together: COPS Grant Strategies | 1500 | 1600 | Considering the course content, develop a plan to strengthen your 2023 application |