Police-Community Relations and Collaborative Problem Solving

Engage with your neighbors in a timely conversation focused on police-community relations and collaborative problem solving with Dr. Kimberly D. Hassell on Tuesday, September 11th at 6:30 p.m. in the lower level meeting room of the Shorewood Village Center, 3920 North Murray Avenue.

Poor police-community relations is a major social issue with serious repercussions. Hassell will explore how community-based collaborative problem solving – police working collaboratively with residents, local business owners, and stakeholders to address the underlying proximate causes of community-based problems – is fundamental to police effectiveness and crime control. Hassell will illustrate how communities with strong police-community relations promote social cohesion and collective efficacy while reducing disorder, crime, and violent victimization.

Hassell is an associate professor in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Helen Bader School of Social Welfare. Hassell teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses, and her research interests include police organizational behavior, police decision-making, police-community relations, and women in policing.

This event is free and open to the public.