Community-Police Relations

Through our preliminary needs assessment, the Center identified Community-Police Relations as a prevalent concern among Newark’s many stakeholder groups that has been insufficiently addressed by existing resources or approaches.

At the invitation of the Newark Police Department, we partnered with the Department in reviewing and revising its community relations strategies.  As a part of that work, we completed a first round of Community-Police Relations Surveys focused on getting in-depth, open-ended responses from over 500 Newark residents from throughout the City. Results from that preliminary survey are available by clicking here.

Additionally, we have developed a shorter, more quantitative survey to be disseminated through multiple media, resulting ultimately in about 2,000 community surveys. We will use data from this survey to identify areas for program and policy improvements and research innovative strategies from other cities that hold promise for Newark’s particular needs and dynamics.  Below is a link to the shorter community-police relations survey.

Would you help us by sending this Community-Police Relations Survey to any and all Newark community members that you know? The survey can be filled online (by clicking on the link) or you may print out the survey and distribute copies of the survey to your network.  If you do distribute hard copies of the survey, we do ask that you have someone enter in all the responses into the database (we can give you more instructions about this later).

The Center featured in Brick City!

Check out this clip from Brick City, Season 2 (episode 4) that features the Center’s work in community-police relations!