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Date of Award

7-2018

Culminating Project Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Criminal Justice: M.S.

Department

Criminal Justice

College

School of Public Affairs

First Advisor

Douglas Gilbertson

Second Advisor

Dick Andzenge

Third Advisor

Christopher Lehman

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Keywords and Subject Headings

COP House, Community Oriented Policing

Abstract

In August of 2017, The city of St. Cloud, Minnesota, opened up the first Community OutPost House (COP House) in the state. The COP House is a community oriented policing initiative that moves members of the St. Cloud Police Department and other organizations into a home within a crime-ridden area. The main objectives of this initiative are to increase trust in police, reduce crime, and improve the community as a whole. A one-year period of crime data taken from around the COP House was broken down into two six-month increments and analyzed to determine whether the COP House had an affect on crime within the South Side Area. Three categories of crime were analyzed, including drug, violent, and property crimes. Drug and violent crime decreased overall, but the results for all three categories were found to have no statistical significance.

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