Police In-Service Training
This podcast is dedicated to providing research evidence to street-level police officers and command staff alike. The program is intended to provide research in a jargon-free manner that cuts through the noise, misinformation, and misperceptions about the police. The discussions with policing experts will help the law enforcement community create better programs, understand challenging policies, and dispel myths of police officer behavior.
Police In-Service Training
Latest Episodes
Policing as a Reassuring Factor: Good Policing can Reduce Fear
A sign means something. When you see a stop sign there’s no mystery about its meaning. Some signs are not as clear, and we have to interpret their meaning. For example, when someone sees neighborhood disorder or social incivil...
Policing and Risk: Identifying Low Risk Calls
A society wants order and the police were developed as the government vehicle to achieve that goal. There is often tension between the goal of order and how it is achieved. The tension often results from errors on the part of the re...
The Police - Clinician Co-Responder Model
Mental health calls to the police can be challenging for many reasons. One of the primary problems with sending the police is that they are not usually properly trained to handle a person experiencing a mental health crisis. The pas...
Female Police Officers: Should I Stay or Should I Go
Increasing the number of female police officers is a challenge for police agencies. While there has been ample research on this topic, the issue remains, and so the research continues. Dr. Kathleen Padilla, from the School of Crimin...
The Police - Researcher Partnership
The goal of this podcast is provide the police community with research information to improve their work or help solve a problem. I could not do this without the research that is produced by scholars who have a solid working relationship ...
