Community safety paper series. Beyond community policing: Engaging prosecutors in community safety partnerships
Date Published: 01/01/2009
Author: Anne Tremblay, Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney
Published by: LISC and the MetLife Foundation
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The prosecutor has a specific area of expertise and a distinct role to play in community safety that cannot be filed by the police or the community. This article explains that role and describes several best practices, with illustrative models for including a local prosecutor in the kind of safety partnerships championed by CSI and the MetLife Foundation Community-Police Partnership Awards.
Topic: --Community Safety
Type: Case study / model practice, Guidebook