Police departments have changed their policies regarding use of force over the years to protect life, but ICE and other federal agencies have lagged in this regard.
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Community police officers are important for maintaining trust in police.
The case of Tyre Nichols highlights how traffic stops can turn deadly. Traffic stops are also prone to racial bias, can break down community trust in police and yield few results, research shows.
Ignoring any order of the court undermines democracy and the rule of law. No one should be above the law.
School districts across the nation are wrestling with whether to have police officers on school grounds.
Firefighters are hailed as heroes and pillars of strength, bravery and courage. But the daily stressors and traumas of their jobs take a heavy emotional toll that largely goes unnoticed by the public.
Police officers are also not, and are not expected to be, sworn translators or interpreters. This has serious implications for justice.
Recruiting 20,000 new police officers may sound like a massive boost, but the reality is that the Conservative’s proposal will simply replace the 20,600 police officers who have already been cut.
Scholarship in organizational psychology has shown that when employee morale is low, it can result in poorer performance. A new study finds this may be true for some police officers.
Insights and approaches drawn from anthropology could be a useful part of the toolkit for a cop trying to catch a killer.
The police in schools model abolished in Victoria in 2006 represents an outdated, paternalistic approach to youth crime and would not likely reduce youth crime rates if we brought it back now.
Tough-on-crime models of policing students don’t reduce youth crime, but community engagement programs for at-risk youth can be beneficial.
A review of international research shows that police may well be better off without weapons.
Clashes between student protesters and armed security (whether public or private) compel South Africans to consider the role of use of force in the context of protests.
Protests erupted against the killing of black men by police in Tulsa and Charlotte. This roundup looks at research on racial violence and explains where there might be potential solutions.
Police in schools are being asked to deal with a range of issues, such as being a mental health counselor for a traumatized child. It is unfair to the police and can be harmful for children.
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Professor of Criminology & Public Policy, University of Brighton
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Assistant Professor of Management, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of Sociology & Criminal Justice, University of Delaware
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Anthropologist- Researcher, Nelson Mandela University
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Associate Professor, Teaching Program Director, Flinders Criminology & Head, Social Sciences, College of Business, Creative Arts, Law and Social Sciences, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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SARCHI Ocean Cultures and Heritage, Nelson Mandela University
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Lecturer in Criminal Justice, Department of Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Dean: Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of the Western Cape
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Postdoctoral research fellow (Forensic Linguistics/ Language and Law), University of the Western Cape
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Principal Lecturer in the Department Of Law and Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State
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Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University
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Associate Professor of Social Work, Arizona State University