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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tacoma police released new data revealing violent crime is trending down due to its evidence-based policing strategy, however, murders and business robberies rose. Leaders of the Tacoma Police ...

The last two decades have been fraught for the policing profession, with police facing internal and external challenges to their public safety and legitimacy mandates. Much more research, analysis, ...

Seven Democrats are urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to cease grant funding for predictive policing systems until DOJ ensures they are not having “a discriminatory impact.” Emerging Technology ...

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 ...

Vallejo police have announced a partnership with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives to reduce gun ...