Recommendation 14.3

MPD should undertake an evaluation of its enforcement activities that specifically accounts for collateral damage on community trust and legitimacy.

Current:

MPD seeks to create new and foster existing relationships and expand community conversations within the Milwaukee community.  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.  Positive community-police relationships invariably contribute to greater public safety, and MPD strives for each member of the community to experience MPD as positive force acting on their behalf.

Future:

MPD recognizes the opportunity afforded at this juncture to build up on its current practices and engage its stakeholders within the context of these initiatives, and further recognizes itself and the community as potential participants and contributors to the community of practice that can be created around how community policing is recognized, valued and embraced by law enforcement and its respective community stakeholders in the 21^st Century.  MPD strives to contribute to the body of literature that helps to inform the national dialogue on how law enforcement agencies and their stakeholders can collaborate to inform community policing policies and practices that contribute to mutual goals of public safety, public trust and legitimacy.