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Recommendations

Chapter 4

Community Oriented Policing Practices

Finding 11

MPD does not hold all members of the Department accountable for engaging in community policy activities. 

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Recommendation 11.1

MPD should require command officers to define, in writing, the specific steps to be taken to identify and engage local community stakeholders in collaborative community policing efforts within their areas of command.

Recommendation 11.2

MPD should require every command officer responsible for any operational unit in the Department to complete a routine community policing status report.

Recommendation 11.3

MPD should incorporate community policing performance measures into their routine CompStat process.

Recommendation 11.4

MPD should provide training to supervisors and command staff on community policing for supervisors.

Recommendation 11.5

MPD should update the employee performance appraisal process to ensure that it includes (as appropriate) measurements of an employee's contributions to the strategic community policing goals, including positive police-community interaction and problem resolution.

Recommendation 11.6

MPD should publish an annual review of progress towards community policing goals and objectives.

Recommendation 11.7

MPD should update the promotional testing procedures for supervisors and command officers to include questions and activities testing a candidate's ability to lead and direct community policing efforts.

Recommendation 11.2

MPD should require every command officer responsible for any operational unit in the Department to complete a routine community policing status report.

Current:

In 2010, MPD adopted the mission statement, “In partnership with the community we will create and maintain neighborhoods capable of sustaining civic life.  We commit to reducing the levels of crime, fear and disorder through community-based, problem, oriented and data-driven policing.”

The implementation of MPD’s community policing strategy is directly connected to articulating the mission of the department and physically organizing the department in a way consistent with that vision and mission.  Building on existing efforts, MPD seeks to engage research, evaluation and recommendations for enhanced community engagement around what it seeks to do in its efforts to reduce crime and create safe neighborhoods and how those efforts are communicated to and perceived by the Milwaukee community.

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