IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 652 
Supporting the practice of community-oriented policing and encouraging 
diversity hiring and retention in law enforcement. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 7, 2017 
Ms. LEE (for herself, Ms. BORDALLO, Ms. JUDY CHU of California, Mr. CLAY, 
Mr. HASTINGS, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. MOORE, Mr. TONKO, and Ms. NOR-
TON) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on the Judiciary 
RESOLUTION 
Supporting the practice of community-oriented policing and 
encouraging diversity hiring and retention in law enforce-
ment. 
Whereas promoting trust between law enforcement agencies 
and the communities they serve is critical to the stability 
of our communities, the integrity of our criminal justice 
system, and the safe and effective delivery of law enforce-
ment services; 
Whereas the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Sta-
tistics (BJS) which publishes a census of deaths that 
occur during the process of arrest or during an attempt 
to obtain custody by law enforcement, estimates in its 
preliminary report that from June 2015 to May 2016, 
there were an estimated 1,900 arrest-related deaths; 
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Whereas the BJS’s preliminary report examining arrest-re-
lated deaths found that 64 percent of arrest-related 
deaths were homicides between June and August 2015; 
Whereas events in Ferguson, Missouri; Staten Island, New 
York; North Charleston, South Carolina; Baltimore, 
Maryland; Charlotte, North Carolina; Baton Rouge, Lou-
isiana; Falcon Heights, Minnesota, and other cities 
across the country have highlighted the need for strong, 
collaborative relationships between local police and the 
communities they serve and protect; 
Whereas, on July 7, 2016, President Barack Obama re-
marked that, ‘‘fatal shootings are not isolated incidents. 
They are symptomatic of the broader challenges within 
our criminal justice system, the racial disparities that ap-
pear across the system year after year, and the resulting 
lack of trust that exists between law enforcement and too 
many of the communities they serve’’; 
Whereas, on December 18, 2014, President Barack Obama 
signed Executive Order 13684 to establish the Task 
Force on 21st Century Policing to examine how to estab-
lish effective crime prevention strategies while also build-
ing public trust between law enforcement and the com-
munities they serve; 
Whereas the Task Force recommended that law enforcement 
agencies engage in proven and successful community-po-
licing tactics, such as combining a focus on intervention 
and prevention through problem solving and collaborative 
partnerships with schools, social services, and other 
stakeholders; 
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Whereas the Task Force also recommended law enforcement 
departments should strive to increase the diversity of 
their workforce; 
Whereas community-oriented policing is a philosophy that 
promotes the systematic use of partnerships and problem- 
solving techniques to proactively address the immediate 
conditions of public safety, crime, social disorder, and 
fear of crime; 
Whereas studies consistently find that community-policing 
strategies like those supported by the Department’s Of-
fice of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Of-
fice) have a positive effect on citizen satisfaction and 
trust in law enforcement; 
Whereas a 2007 survey by the Bureau of Justice Statistics 
found a commitment to community policing may be more 
evident in departments with a formal, written commu-
nity-policing plan; 
Whereas according to a 2007 survey by the Bureau of Justice 
Statistics, only 16 percent of police departments, employ-
ing 48 percent of officers, across the country had a for-
mal written community-policing plan; 
Whereas from 2000 to 2007, the percentage of local depart-
ments using community policing officers declined from 
about 66 percent to 47 percent, while the number of com-
munity policing officers declined by more than half from 
103,000 officers to 47,000 officers; 
Whereas Congress recognizes the vital role and practice that 
community-oriented policing plays in building trust be-
tween law enforcement and the communities they serve 
and protect; 
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