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 ...
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...
In the past few years, numerous theories about crime and criminal justice have been advanced in the United States that lack any basis in evidence or common sense. The Metropolitan Police Service in ...
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 ...
For too long, public safety in American cities has been shaped more by tradition, politics and perception than by evidence and innovation. Policing practices often evolved from institutional culture ...
The question of how to improve policing in South Africa isn’t new – but the pressure to deliver positive change is sharper than ever. How can real, measurable, systemic improvements be achieved? And ...
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 ...
Cynthia Lum, Professor and Director, Evidence-Based Crime Policy (CEBCP), Criminology, Law and Society, and Christopher Koper, Associate Professor, Criminology, Law and Society, received funding for: ...
MADISON (WKOW) -- Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes is one of eight inductees for George Mason University's Evidence-Based Policing Hall of Fame this summer. Inductees nominated for the Hall of Fame ...