Bridging the Language Divide: Promising Practices for Law Enforcement

Abstract

This report details numerous promising practices in overcoming language barriers in law enforcement agencies. Changing demographics across the country have led to a need for law enforcement agencies to be able to communicate more effectively with the people in their jurisdiction. The COPS Office and the Vera Institute of Justice partnered together to identify and disseminate promising practices that agencies have implemented so that others can model programs after these practices to address language barriers they face.