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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. Bradly Campbell discusses his research that evaluates the effectiveness of Trauma-informed interview training.

Main Topics

•Sexual assault myths can negatively impact an officer’s understanding of a victim’s interview response
•Trauma-informed interview training skills can be applied to other police-citizen interactions
•Trained actors may be a necessary approach for realistic police scenario-based training.

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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 the application of Organizational Justice in police agencies and how it can mediate the occupational stress of a police officer.

Main Topics

• Organizational Justice entails four components that are applied by police supervisors and leaders.
• An Organizationally Just work environment can reduce the officer’s belief that noble cause corruption is needed to succeed.
• Occupational stress is inevitable, and Organizational Justice can temper that stress.

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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 in policing research (including a mildly embarrassing story of learning to use VR goggles for the first time).

Main Topics

•Checklists demonstrated a significant improvement in evidence collection when used by streel officers when conducting a routine burglary investigation.
•It is important to recognize when and were checklists can help in police work.
•Virtual reality tools create an immersive environment for studying the police (and it can make research fun!).

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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 has not changed substantially in nearly twenty years.
• There is an imbalance in academy training (academy topics vs. what's done on the street; academy topics themselves).
• “More” training is not necessarily the issue, it has more to do with “what topics” are trained.
• More information is needed on the training quality and delivery method.

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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 evidence to support a doctor’s decisions; it’s not guesswork.
• Appling evidence-based research to policing has shown success in crime prevention tactics.
• Policing should, at the very least, try to “not make things worse.”
• Implementing evidence-based programs is necessary to move policing toward a true profession.

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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 Mousseau discusses his recent research, looking at officer’s views of activating body cameras when engaged with a person experiencing a mental health event. 

Main Topics

• Officers provided diverse opinions on the proper use of BWC when dealing with these calls for service.
• The research finds officers continue to show the need for discretion when their experiences conflict with policy.  Thus, developing a comprehensive policy is a complex endeavor for police leaders.
• Streaming the BWC images with mental health professions is an unexplored option.

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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 human trafficking.  

Main Topics

•While human trafficking is portrayed in a sensational manner in entertainment media, officers are really navigating more nuanced situations, ambiguous situations.
•A survey of police officers from a large agency in Pennsylvania found that training, rather than experience handing or investigating human trafficking, was better for identifying victims.
•They suggest that standardized training is needed for officers to identify human trafficking victims

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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 recently, de-escalation research was non-existent and seen as potentially threating to the officers.
• Dr. Engel discusses how training contributed to substantial reductions in the use-of-force, as well as reductions in officer injuries.
• Still, de-escalation training must be combined with supervisor support and frequent reminders of it’s utility.

Dr. Engel can be contacted at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University.  Her research can be found on Google Scholar.

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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 increase in some types of crime.

Main Topics

• Police officers backed off on their proactive behavior as the result of both department policy during COVID, as well as the social pressure after the death of George Floyd.
• Street-level officers demonstrated a significant reduction in some behavior.
• Backing off on proactive behavior was associated with an increase in some types of violent and property crime.

If you are interested in the de-policing research discussed today, you can find the article using the following citation:

Nix, J., Huff, J., Wolfe, S. E., Pyrooz, D. C., & Mourtgos, S. M. (2024). When police pull back: Neighborhood‐level effects of de‐policing on violent and property crime, a research note. Criminology, 62(1), 156-171.

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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 are exposed to high-stress events.

Main Topics
-Dr. Porter discussed the perceptual distortions as they related to high stress events. 
-We cover the differences in asking officers to document an incident as soon as possible or providing them with a waiting period before they are interviewed.
-Finally, Dr. Porter will review the findings of her research on how an interview should be conducted to allow an officer the best opportunity to document an incident as accurately as possible.

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