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COPS Innovations feature some of the most important issues in community policing today. Basic Innovations pieces offer more high-level, strategic discussions while COPS Innovations: A Closer Look examines these issues in more depth.

Addressing School Related Crime and Disorder: This report is based on the activities of COPS School Based Partnership grantees. Tips and recommendations are provided for developing successful school based problem-solving efforts.
Combating Methamphetamine Laboratories and Abuse: Strategies for Success: This COPS Innovations piece evaluates COPS’ first six meth grants. The COPS Office began funding state and local law enforcement agencies to combat the production, distribution, and use of methamphetamine in 1998. These methamphetamine grants encourage law enforcement agencies to respond to meth problems with advanced technologies and creative problem-solving strategies. Evaluations focus on the history of the methamphetamine problem in the areas to which the grants were awarded and develop detailed process evaluations of each grant’s implementation. This publication provides a brief summary of the findings of the National Evaluation and suggests ways that agencies can better deal with their own methamphetamine problems through a discussion of the COPS Problem-Oriented Policing Guide to Clandestine Laboratories. The entire evaluation report will be posted to COPS Online (www.cops.usdoj.gov) when it is completed.
Creative Partnerships: Supporting Youth, Building Communities: This COPS Innovations piece highlights community policing approaches to developing partnerships with youth. Three youth-focused programs funded by the COPS Office serve as examples of partnerships that law enforcement, schools, and community organizations can form to address issues of juvenile crime and victimization.
Law Enforcement Responds to Terrorism: Lessons in Prevention and Preparedness: This COPS Innovations piece discusses the types of resources that the police may want to consider when developing their own terrorism prevention and response plans.
Problem-Solving Partnerships: This document focuses on COPS Problem-Solving Partnership grantees. It summarizes findings from the National Evaluation and provides recommendations to agencies conducting problem–solving projects.
Promising Strategies from the Field: A National Overview: This COPS Innovations piece highlights specific projects and the progress of American law enforcement agencies that received COPS grants and the impact COPS helped make on their communities. Promising Strategies from the Field focuses on ways COPS grantees operationalize and institutionalize community policing strategies to reduce crime and improve communication between law enforcement and the communities in their jurisdictions. It features innovative practices and problem-solving projects by 11 grantees, each of which illustrates effective community policing.
Promising Strategies from the Field: Community Policing in Smaller Jurisdictions: This COPS Innovations piece highlights specific projects and the progress of American law enforcement agencies that received COPS grants and the impact COPS helped make on their communities. Promising Strategies from the Field focuses on ways COPS grantees operationalize and institutionalize community policing strategies to reduce crime and improve communication between law enforcement and the communities in their jurisdictions. This edition, Community Policing in Smaller Jurisdictions, focuses on innovative solutions developed by eleven small- to mid-sized agencies.
Promising Strategies from the Field: Spotlight on Sheriffs: The Promising Strategies from the Field series highlights specific projects and progress of American law enforcement agencies that received COPS grants and the impact COPS helped make on their communities. Promising Strategies from the Field focuses on ways COPS grantees operationalize and institutionalize community policing strategies to reduce crime and improve communication between law enforcement and the communities in their jurisdictions. This edition, title Spotlight on Sheriffs focuses on six sheriffs' offices, each of which illustrates effective community policing.