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 ...

Matt Bland highlights examples of evidence-based innovation on the front line, and what policy professionals across the civil ...

In an effort to improve law enforcement and the relationships between police and the communities they serve, the University of Mississippi is launching a new graduate certificate program in ...

Since the 2020 murder by Minneapolis police of George Floyd brought nationwide calls for change amid concerns that prevailing practices were not grounded in evidence and created harm, policing has ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tacoma police released new data revealing violent crime is trending down due to its evidence-based policing strategy, however, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This chapter delves into considerations for the implementation of both person-based and place-based predictive policing technologies. While these approaches differ in their specific focus, many of the ...

This activity was supported by contracts between the National Academy of Sciences and the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, Award No.