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Police In-Service Training
by Scott Phillips
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
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Policing the Bad Guy: The Use of Labels in Policing
Send us Fan Mail Some 50 years ago, the policing scholar John van Maanen wrote an article titled "the asshole," concluding that the use of derogatory labels had an importance to the police occupation. Using labels was important to police officers. Essentially, the use of derogatory labels by…
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Policing, Moral Injury, and Occupational Stress: Lessons for Policing Leadership Everywhere
Send us Fan Mail 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 an officer will also deal with organizational...
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Policing and Crime Analysis Centers
Send us Fan Mail 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 stories police officers tell each other. They...
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Police Leadership Turnover
Send us Fan Mail 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 department, both would have features unique to…
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Policing with Less-Lethal Options: Minimizing Civilian Injuries
Send us Fan Mail 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. Still, a civilian can sustain an injury...
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Gunshot Detection Systems: The Price of Policing?
Send us Fan Mail 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? Which is it? This week we’ll be discussing Gunshot Detection...
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Improve Police Behavior via Artificial Intelligence
Send us Fan Mail 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 limits within policing, the jury is still out…
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Policing Crime Guns, Not Just Gun Crime
Send us Fan Mail 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 should be considered “durable hardware” that...
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Immigration and Gun Homicides: The Evidence and Policing Implications
Send us Fan Mail 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 to contribute to an argument that something is...
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Science-Based Interviewing: The Impact of Police Training
Send us Fan Mail 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 believed that false confessions make up 13% of...
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Policing as a Reassuring Factor: Good Policing can Reduce Fear
Send us Fan Mail 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 incivilities, such as obvious drug dealing, these serve as...
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Policing and Risk: Identifying Low Risk Calls
Send us Fan Mail 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 responding officer. This explains why alternative...
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The Police - Clinician Co-Responder Model
Send us Fan Mail 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 past few years have seen shifts from a law...
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Female Police Officers: Should I Stay or Should I Go
Send us Fan Mail 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 Criminal Justice & Criminology at Texas State...
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The Police - Researcher Partnership
Send us Fan Mail 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 with police agencies. It’s helpful that…
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Police Training and Reform Topics: How Culture Impacts Acceptance
Send us Fan Mail 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 the multi-dimensional aspects of training and...
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Defund the Police? Not So Fast.
Send us Fan Mail 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 Criminology and Criminal Justice at the...
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Policing and Shooting Data: How to Show Success
Send us Fan Mail 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 of those used by many industries: counting...
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Code Enforcement: Policing with a Light Footprint
Send us Fan Mail 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 Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of South...
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Delayed Decisions in Policing: Choosing the Least Worst Option
Send us Fan Mail 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 uncertainty can be the result of training or…
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LAPD: How an Historical Examination can Improve Policing
Send us Fan Mail 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 LAPD, and explains some of the…
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Police Use-of-Force Continuum
Send us Fan Mail 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, constructed in with the goal of minimizing an...
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The Moral Injury of Police Work
Send us Fan Mail 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 depressive disorders. Dr. Lorraine...
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Trauma-Informed Sexual Assault Training for Police Investigations
Send us Fan Mail 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. Dr. Bradley Campbell discusses his…
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Organizational Justice and Policing
Send us Fan Mail 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 organizationally just manner. Dr. Scott Wolfe explains…
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Investigative Checklists in Policing
Send us Fan Mail 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 also talks about the use of virtual reality tools…
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Police Academy Training
Send us Fan Mail 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 training. Main Topics Police academy training…
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The Ethics of Evidence-Based Policing
Send us Fan Mail 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 Topics Medical research provides empirical...
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Police Body-Worn Cameras and Mental Health Calls
Send us Fan Mail 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 use of body cameras. This week Dr. Vincent...
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Human Trafficking: Identifying Victims
Send us Fan Mail 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 imperative for street-level officers to recognize...
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Police De-Escalation
Send us Fan Mail 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 incidents peacefully. Main Topics Until...
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Episode 14: When the Police Back Off
Send us Fan Mail 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 how a reduction in proactive behavior lead to an...
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Episode 13: High-Stress and Officer Recall
Send us Fan Mail 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 the memory and recall of police officers who...
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Episode 12: Policing Deaths during Active Shooter Events
Send us Fan Mail 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 move toward danger, and there is an expectation that...
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Episode 11: Contagious Fire
Send us Fan Mail Whenever a police officer fires their weapon at another person it is important to understand why. What were the conditions that lead to the shooting? Explaining why a single officer shoots two or three times is important but explaining why three or four officers empty their clips...
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Episode 10: Hot Spots Policing
Send us Fan Mail Hot spots policing has been around for more than 20 years, and there are many studies exploring its use. Joining us to discuss the broad range of research on the topic is Brandon Turchan, a professor of criminal justice at Michigan State University. Main Topics •We’ll summarize…
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Episode 9: Police Mental Health and Wellness
Send us Fan Mail Studies show that a police officer experiences as many traumatic events in 6 months as the average person does across their entire lifetime. These stressful experiences can build up within an officer and lead to any number of personal and professional problems. For several…
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Episode 8: Academy Training
Send us Fan Mail In recent years there has been a small shift in how the police should frame their goals, and how police academies should train new recruits. The “guardian” approach to policing emphasizes community service, democracy, procedural justice, and de-escalation. Shifting from a warrior...
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Episode 7: Artificial Intelligence in Policing
Send us Fan Mail Technological advancements have always found their way into policing, and Artificial Intelligence is no exception. Dr. Ian Adams joins the podcast today to discuss some of the seminal research exploring AI in policing. Ian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of…
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Episode 6: Police Hiring and Retention
Send us Fan Mail Police agencies are experiencing an increased loss in staffing and complex issues when trying to fill those positions. This week Dr. Joe Schafer from Arizona State University's School of Criminology & Criminal Justice joins the podcast to explore the issue of hiring and…
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Episode 5: Procedural Justice
Send us Fan Mail Procedural Justice is more than a simple buzzword. It is related to police legitimacy, de-escalation, hot spots policing, and organizational justice. This week we talk with Dr. Justin Nix, a Distinguished Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at…
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Episode 4: Policing and Drug Treatment
Send us Fan Mail At its most fundamental level, policing is a public service. And there is a trend in policing to recognize that duty. This episode will explore how some police agencies have begun to work with service providers to help people into drug treatment. Professor Sean Varano, from Roger...
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Episode 3: Policing Humor
Send us Fan Mail "Policing Humor" can be interpreted in two ways. First, the cops are cracking down on jokes or anyone trying to be a "funny guy." Second, and correctly, the notion that policing expose officers to a lot of funny situations. But there is utility in humor, and we'll examine this in...
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Episode 2: Police Officer Involved Shootings
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we speak with Steven Bishopp, a Major in the Dallas Police Department. Steve has been with the DPD for over 30 years. Currently, he leads the R&D division, which handles police crime numbers from the reports officers do in the field. He also leads the department's...
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Episode 1: Origin Story - Police Firearms
Send us Fan Mail Why am I spending time on a podcast for the police? I want to get officers and command staff information that can help them in their jobs. This first episode explains the goals of this podcast, and since I'm discussing the origins of this idea, I decided to start with a...
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Police In-Service Training Podcast Trailer
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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.
HOSTED BY
Scott Phillips
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