In the 1990s the notion of Community Policing became popular for local government. It was a method for police departments to prevent crime by operating based on four principles: 1. Police-community ...

Venue: Vineyard Hotel, 60 Colinton Road, Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa and online via Zoom The question of how to improve policing in South Africa isn’t new – but the pressure to deliver positive ...

As many people in the U.S. feel outraged about the killings of Black Americans by local police, protesters across the country are calling for reforms of our law enforcement systems. Proposals for ...

IN DECEMBER 2013, Gillian Routledge, a police analyst in Durham, received a surprising phone call from her boss. “Do you fancy a master’s from Cambridge?” Mike Barton, then Durham’s police chief, ...

Pilot studies show evidence-based policing can cut crime levels, but real success requires translating new approaches into daily practice. South Africa currently faces an urgent and grave violent ...

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 687, Fatal Police Shootings: Patterns, Policy, and Prevention (JANUARY 2020), pp. 8-26 (19 pages) The promise of evidence-based ...

QUINCY — Jonathan Lewin, a 28-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, said Quincy could benefit to an evidence-based approach to policing. Evidence-based policing involves using the best ...

So it used to be that we—just based on strictly correlational evidence—you regress crime on the number of police officers, and you look at the correlation between those two things, and there’s no ...

Pilot studies show evidence-based policing can cut crime levels, but real success requires translating new approaches into daily practice. South Africa currently faces an urgent and grave violent ...

While we are frustrated with the striking lack of data about the killing of unarmed civilians by police, we are nevertheless encouraged by recent assertions of medical researchers that this problem ...