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The value of criminal history and police intelligence in vetting and selection of police
Despite decades of research considering police misconduct, there is still little consensus on officer characteristics associated with misconduct, and...
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The Tier One Transformation: Exploring the Convergence of the Material and Cultural Indicators of Police Militarization Between Special Forces Units and Police Tactical Units
The proliferation and deployment of police tactical units is an emerging issue in the broader sociopolitical discussion surrounding police reform in...
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Emotional Intelligence and the Future of Police Personnel
For the policing profession, trust and legitimacy is becoming harder to maintain. The mass exodus of police officers and record low numbers of...
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Police Work and the Antifascism Police Movement in Brazil
This chapter examines the ways in which members of the Antifascism Police Movement recognize the notion of working police as a political and utopian...
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Experiment on camera perspective bias in videos of police-citizen encounters
ObjectivesThis study tested camera perspective bias in evaluating a video-recorded police and citizen interaction.
MethodsUsing professional actors,...
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Measuring Cybercrime in Calls for Police Service
Conventional police databases contain much information on cybercrime, but extracting it remains a practical challenge. This is because these...
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Public Confidence Attitude Formation Toward the Police in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan: Similarities and Differences
While public attitudes toward the police have been extensively researched in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan over the past three decades, no...
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Forecasting for Police Officer Safety: A Demonstration of Concept
PurposePolice officers in the USA are often put in harm’s way when responding to calls for service. This paper provides a demonstration of concept...
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The Law as a Necropolitical Tool: A Genealogy of Police Violence in Brazil
This article explores the necropolitical foundations of police violence in Brazil via a genealogical approach of analysis of criminal codes, creation...
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Aggressive policing and undermined legitimacy: assessing the impact of police stops at gunpoint on perceptions of police in São Paulo, Brazil
ObjectivesTest the effects of a recent police stop and a recent police stop at gunpoint on changes in attitudes towards the police among residents of...
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The Role and Contribution of the Police Planner in Improving Police Service Delivery
This chapter critically examines the role of a police planner and planning units. Data were collected from a 32-question electronic survey that was...
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Police and Protestors: Motives and Responses
This chapter examines the law and human rights relating to public protests based on international instruments and discussion around coverage of the...
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Improving the Police Response
This chapter reviews the strategies that are being currently used by the police to respond to terrorism and discusses some areas of the response that...
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Police practitioner views on the challenges of analysing and responding to knife crime
Knife crime remains a major concern in England and Wales. Problem-oriented and public health approaches to tackling knife crime have been widely...
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Making the call: how does perceived race affect desire to call the police?
ObjectivesThere is little scholarship about what affects calls for service, even as they originate the vast majority of police interventions in the...
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The Police Response to Terrorism – Draft Chapter
This chapter reviews the police response to terrorism. There are 12 sections to this chapter. The first section of the chapter examines the...
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If the face fits: predicting future promotions from police cadets’ facial traits
ObjectiveTo evaluate the relationship between police cadets’ facial traits and their subsequent promotional success.
MethodsUsing archival police...
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Police Ethics Brought Up to Date
This chapter examines the importance of police ethics, mainly in the context of the police organisation, but also its importance to the safety and...
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Effective Strategies to Enhance Police Service Delivery
Over time, police department responsibilities have expanded from prioritizing order maintenance and law enforcement to routinely encompassing tasks...
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The Thought Police: The Need for Police Leaders as Thinkers
Policing is about public service, and the future betterment of its function can be aided by a more thinking approach within its leadership. Given the...