Madison’s Monona Terrace Convention Center will be the site on September 24-26, 2007, for the Eighteenth Annual Problem-Oriented Policing Conference, an event that draws police professionals from around the state, the nation, and the world. This is the second year that the event has taken place in Madison.

The conference, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin Law School’s Center for Problem-Oriented Policing, is being hosted by the Madison Police Department with funding support from the U.S. Department of Justice and the Wisconsin Department of Justice.

Approximately 500 police officials, scholars, and other crime-prevention practitioners are expected to attend. A detailed agenda for the conference, including information on workshops and presenters, can be found at http://www.popcenter.org/about-conference-07.htm .

Among the numerous topics for separate sessions are: loud parties and risky drinking; policing State Street (by the Madison Police Department); burglary in college residence halls; domestic violence (by the Northern Ireland police); fear of crime in public places (by the London Transportation Authority); and problem-based learning (a session that will be oriented to police but relevant to legal education as well).

Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm, a 1994 graduate of the UW Law School, will deliver a luncheon talk on community prosecution on Tuesday, September 25.

Submitted by on September 14, 2007

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