The National Network’s approach has attracted significant media attention over the years. This page features the most recent coverage of our work and a searchable archive of media about the National Network’s projects around the nation and abroad.
The National Network convenes regular conferences, working sessions and webinars to discuss and promote developments in its core areas of operation, showcase innovations, and set research and development priorities.

Pittsburgh police chief, officers meet with community in trust-building effort
Pittsburgh police and members of the community met for several hours Tuesday at the Senator John Heinz History Center for ...

Case Study: Communicating the Connection between Trust Building and Violence Reduction
Throughout 2018, the Gary Police Department began using new messaging to community members to reinforce connections between its police-community trust-building ...

Case Study: Applying Procedural Justice to Youth Engagements with School Resource Officers
As part of its youth intervention, the Fort Worth Police Department hosted a peer exchange on a training curriculum developed ...

Case Study: Community Input On Unmanned Aerial Systems (Drones), Stockton Police Department
The Stockton Police Department in California has piloted a community input process for new departmental policy. On August 3, 2017, ...

Case Study: Improving Police Service to Immigrant Communities in Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police has made it a priority to improve service to immigrant and refugee communities. In July ...

Case Study: A Native American Young Women’s Mentoring Program Created by Minneapolis Police Officers
Minneapolis Police Department Community Resource Officers created the “Oshki-ikwewag Mino-Bimaadizii” mentoring program, which translates in the Ojibwe language to “Young ...

American Police Must Own Their Racial Injustices
To improve relationships with communities of color, a reconciliation movement has begun in several cities, in which police brush up ...