Learning Center
Model POP Curriculum
An adaptable 14-module undergraduate course, including detailed PowerPoints and links to required texts. It's a complete course, ready to go!
Interview with Herman Goldstein by Samuel Walker
Historic Interview with POP's founder, Herman Goldstein. Interviewed by renowned historian Samuel Walker. In 9 parts.
GIS for Public Safety: An Annotated Guide to ArcGIS Tools and Procedures
Crime analysis for problem solving can't be done without understanding location, and that's what GIS is all about. This easy-to-follow manual teaches you all the skills needed to bring you up to speed with this essential tool.
Speeding in Residential Areas
Residential Speeding Presentation (Powerpoint/Video)
Problem Solving: Lessons from Policing
Sixth Sense Training, United Kingdom
16 short training videos that teach the basics of police problem solving. Developed and delivered by Neil Henson who has extensive experience leading and teaching police problem solving in the London Metropolitan Police Service.
Problem Solver's Handbook (companion guide)
New! Problem-Oriented Policing Leadership & Management
This program is designed to help senior and mid-level police leaders improve the effectiveness and fairness of police through a problem-oriented approach to policing. It does so by exploring these issues:
- The nature and complexity of the modern police function and the challenges in carrying it out
- The strengths and limitations of the standard model of policing
- The principles and methods of problem-oriented policing
- The principles and methods of situational crime prevention
- Shifting and sharing police responsibility for addressing public-safety problems
- Leading and managing a problem-oriented police agency
A certificate of completion from Arizona State University's Continuing & Professional Education program is provided. You can take the course self-paced by yourself or with others as part of a cohort.
POP Virtual Learning Sessions
Because the COVID-19 pandemic is making large in-person conferences infeasible, the POP Center is planning single-topic online sessions. Click here for details and to register for the first of these sessions.
What Is Problem-Oriented Policing?
Problem-oriented policing is an approach to policing in which discrete pieces of police business are subject to microscopic examination in hopes that what is freshly learned about each problem will lead to discovering a new and more effective strategy for dealing with it.
Street Prostitution Learning Module
You advise the Mayor on how to address a problem of street prostitution. People are upset. Something must done. A 60-90 minute exercise.
Problem Analysis Module
Enter a problem and this interactive module will help you solve it step-by-step. Answer a series of questions and the program returns a variety of responses you could try. Best done in a group setting.
**Under construction. Will be available again soon.**
25 Techniques of Situational Crime Prevention 
See how the 25 techniques of situational crime prevention work. Learn how to increase the effort for offenders, increase their risks, reduce their rewards, reduce provocation, and remove their excuses.