Police

Session three of this webinar series was held on Wednesday, December 1, at 1:00 p.m., ET, and focused on innovative methods to engage with community partners to understand issues and work together to reduce crime and protect communities. The session featured a unique panel of law enforcement leaders and interviews with nationally recognized National College Athletic Association (NCAA) coaches who have worked to form innovative partnerships between local police officers and student athletes.

At the 2021 ASC Conference, I was a guest on Ep. 42 of Jerry Ratcliffe's Reducing Crime Podcast

At the 2021 ASC Conference, I present findings from my latest paper on police shootings with John Shjarback.

At the 2021 ASC Conference, I discuss a recent paper on legitimacy and empowerment with Kyle McLean.

We compile nonfatal police shooting data from four states and find that some racial disparities are larger than previously thought.

Using NIBRS data, we show domestic incidents are _not_ more likely to involve officers being assaulted or injured

We examine the effect of COVID-19 on domestic violence, as measured by daily calls to 911 and Victim Service Agencies’ emergency hotlines.

Earlier today I was reminded of some data I’m sitting on that my colleagues and I never published anywhere. This comes from a web-based survey of police officers at a large, southern agency that we administered in 2018. The response rate was 31%. So we asked officers to consider eight ideas that “have been proposed as ways to improve policing” and indicate the extent they supported or opposed each. We listed a hodgepodge of “reforms” including some that would (1) expand police authority, (2) restrict police authority, or (3) increase citizen oversight.

Police resignations - but not retirements or involuntary separations - spiked significantly in a large western department following the George Floyd protests.

A roundtable about disparities in policing and how to address them. With Sadaf Hashimi, Tracie Keesee, and Seth Stoughton (moderated by Walter Katz). Click on the Video button above to watch.

Despite considerable evidence that police legitimacy results in beneficial outcomes like compliance, cooperation, and empowerment, scholars have yet to agree on how to define and operationalize legitimacy. Drawing on Max Weber’s facets of legitimacy, …

We argue that Denver’s 2020 crime spike was likely the result of a police legitimacy crisis.

In 5 of 6 jurisdictions, domestic violence calls for police service spiked during stay-at-home orders

We evaluated the effect of a mandatory SAK testing policy on the monthly rape arrest rate in a western jurisdiction

Correcting 91 misclassified incidents renders Bor et al.’s (2018) key finding non-significant.

Our survey experiment suggests the wording of questions about police fairness matters.

**Research Summary**: We administered a survey experiment to a national sample of 1,068 US adults in April 2020 to determine the factors that shape support for various policing tactics in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents were sharply …

My brief review of White & Malm’s NYU press book about police body-worn cameras.

A discussion about the function of police, the role of police oversight, and various reforms that have been suggested.

My brief review of Philip Stinson’s new book in the *Criminology Explains* series.

A discussion about engaging with the media and the public as an early career researcher.

A discussion about reimagining policing in America.

Body-worn cameras (BWC) have diffused rapidly throughout policing as a means of promoting transparency and accountability. Yet, whether to release BWC footage to the public remains largely up to the discretion of police executives, and we know little …

In my last post, I pointed out that shootings weren’t occurring less frequently in NYC in 2020 than in prior years, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. I was also careful not to jump to the conclusion that shootings had increased significantly. That was June 3rd. Suffice it to say a lot has happened since then - including 624 additional shootings. Each of the last four years, NYC had fewer than 200 shootings from June to July.

I was invited to write a formal comment on a recent analysis of fatal police shootings in US MSAs.