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.
Episodes
37 episodes
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...
Police Academy Training
Dr. Gene Paoline discusses his research into police academy training in the United States. Using Bureau of Justice Statistics data from their census of police academy’s, Gene and his colleagues identified six basic themes of academy train...
The Ethics of Evidence-Based Policing
Dr. Renee Mitchell joins the podcast to discuss evidence-based policing, and that law enforcement agencies have an ethical obligation to institute, whenever possible, policies and programs that are sound and supported by research.Main...
Police Body-Worn Cameras and Mental Health Calls
Police body-worn cameras (BWC) have been around for several years, and a large number of studies have examined their acceptance by officers and their impact on use-of-force incidents. Recent research expands on more subtle aspects of the ...
Human Trafficking: Identifying Victims
Human trafficking is not the first thing you might think about as a policing issue, but it occurs everywhere. In this episode Dr’s Gibbs and Strohacker from Penn State Harrisburg discuss their research that indicates training is imperativ...
Police De-Escalation
Dr. Robin Engel takes a deep dive into police de-escalation, an approach that includes techniques to reduce the tension that can be part of any police-citizen interaction. The tactics are designed to minimize the use of force by resolving...
Episode 14: When the Police Back Off
There have been many questions about police proactive behavior and its impact on crime. In 2020 two events caused police officers to “back off” on their street activity. Dr. Jessica Huff explains the research into de-policing and ho...
Episode 13: High-Stress and Officer Recall
A police officer’s body camera can record the objective reality of an event, but the officer’s recall of the event will often be inaccurate. Dr. Louise Porter from Griffith University joins the podcast to discuss her research exploring th...
Episode 12: Policing Deaths during Active Shooter Events
Police officers are trained to use deadly physical force as a last resort. They are also trained to reduce their own risk of death. Active shooter events, however, require a different behavior formula. Officers are trained to ...