Preventing violent extremism requires new police programs, report finds

Friday, January 15, 2016 - 14:10 in Biology & Nature

The U.S. strategy to prevent homegrown violent extremism through community policing holds promise, but faces significant challenges and needs reforms, according to a new report. Community policing efforts should be expanded and should be entirely separate from police counterterrorism intelligence collection and criminal investigations, the report recommends.

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