Police In-Service Training
This podcast offers conversations with policing experts to help the law enforcement community create better programs, understand challenging policies, and dispel myths of police officer behavior. The program is intended to provide research in a jargon-free manner that cuts through the noise, misinformation, and misperceptions about the police.
Episodes
45 episodes
Policing, Moral Injury, and Occupational Stress: Lessons for Policing Leadership Everywhere
Studies of policing and their wellbeing often focus on critical incidents. These would be the officer-involved shooting incidents, or if they have to deal with some graphic crime scene. But what might surprise some listeners is that...
Policing and Crime Analysis Centers
How good are the crime analysis centers that are a growing part of policing? I've heard a lot of stories about how analysts have made major contributions to solving crimes and tracked wanted criminals, but those are similar to the war sto...
Police Leadership Turnover
The leader of an organization has a difficult task. Anyone coming up the chain in any police agency would appreciate the issues and problems of that agency. While the leadership issues of a large PD would dwarf those of a smaller de...
Policing with Less-Lethal Options: Minimizing Civilian Injuries
Many police officers now carry less-lethal tools, which provide police officers with the means to apprehend resistant suspects without the need for hands-on tactics or firearms. Hopefully this reduces the risk of civilian injury and death...
Gunshot Detection Systems: The Price of Policing?
Gunshot detections systems work. No, gunshot detection systems don’t work. Can we have it both ways? It’s kind of like the first line in A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Well?&...
Improve Police Behavior via Artificial Intelligence
Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on an unproven tool is wasteful, and Artificial Intelligence equipment for policing can be just such an expensive outlay. While there is a growing body of research showing the AI benefits and limi...
Policing Crime Guns, Not Just Gun Crime
Almost 25% of guns are used multiple times at or very close to the same place or reused within a relatively short period of time. Just like “hot spots” for crime, guns can share similar repeat characteristics. In fact, a single firearm sh...
Immigration and Gun Homicides: The Evidence and Policing Implications
Police officers understand evidence. From their time in the police academy to the first time they testify in court, even traffic court, an officer understands the importance of providing clear provable information. The evidence has ...
Science-Based Interviewing: The Impact of Police Training
We’ve all seen the movies in which a suspect is being interviewed by a bad cop and a good cop. The detectives badger or con the suspect to a point of offering a false confession just to stop the process. In the real world it is beli...
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 ...
Police Training and Reform Topics: How Culture Impacts Acceptance
There are many new training programs being offered to police officers, and policy reforms are almost as prevalent. This is no surprise, as both training and reforms are intended to improve modern policing. What is less understood is...
Defund the Police? Not So Fast.
The answer to problems in policing is better policing, not its abolition. If the move to eliminate policing were successful, “people will hate you.” That was the response of Dr. Paige Vaughn, assistant professor in the Department of...
Policing and Shooting Data: How to Show Success
Policing tactics are directly related to those used to improve public health (e.g., the impact of abandoned housed on crime and interventions to reduce gun violence). Policing can also benefit by including success stories along the lines ...
Code Enforcement: Policing with a Light Footprint
Policing includes more than just law enforcement. Crime reduction is a thinking game: how can the police succeed while also saving their own time and resources? Hunter M. Boehme, an assistant professor in the Department of Criminol...
Delayed Decisions in Policing: Choosing the Least Worst Option
If a police officer is facing a critical incident they may delay their decisions because of something called “decision inertia.” Officers don’t freeze up, but delay or fail to make decisions due to uncertainty. Paradoxically, that u...
LAPD: How an Historical Examination can Improve Policing
Understanding a police agencies history, both successes and failures, provides important insights for creating transparency and accountability. Dr. Craig Uchida, from Justice Security Solutions, discusses his historical research at the LA...
Police Use-of-Force Continuum
The Use-of-Force Continuum is intended to provide guidance for police officers on the appropriate, proportional level of force to use when trying to gain compliance. There seems to be a logical progression in the modern continuum, constru...
The Moral Injury of Police Work
A police officer’s mental health can be impacted by more than just the personal and physical trauma they experience on the street. Moral injuries are less tangible but similarly harmful events that can contribute to psychological and depr...
Trauma-Informed Sexual Assault Training for Police Investigations
Trauma-informed interview training can help street-level police officers and investigators when interviewing sexual assault victims. The training applies a victim-centered approach for understanding how trauma impacts memory and behavior....
Organizational Justice and Policing
Organizational Justice is a close relative or Procedural Justice. And if it’s important for officers to treat citizens in a procedurally just manner, it is also important for police supervisors to treat their officers in an organizational...
Investigative Checklists in Policing
Checklists are intended to improve the efficiency of people who have to perform in a complex work environment. Dr. Cory Haberman joins the podcast to discuss his research into the effectiveness of using checklists in policing. He al...