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While much has changed in the 199 years since Sir Robert Peel set out to establish the world’s first full-time police force, one critical aspect has not—the issue of opposition. In Peel’s case, ...
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On July 19, 2015, a campus police officer from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, Police Division (UCPD) shot and killed an unarmed black male motorist, Samuel DuBose, who had been stopped for a miss...
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America has always been a divided society. Racial, social, political, and economic divisions have long existed and resulted in frustration and a mutual lack of trust. In recent years, those frustratio...
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Like never before, there is a spotlight on law enforcement practices and how officers interact with their communities. A Gallup poll from 2020 reported that 52 percent of Americans do not have confi...
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Substance use disorder has taken a tremendous toll in the United States in lives lost, families destroyed, personal incomes disrupted, and the associated childhood trauma causing intergenerational sub...
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Even the ancient Romans were concerned about accountability and oversight. Nearly 2,000 years ago the Roman satirist Juvenal asked, “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”—which can be translated from ...
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Law enforcement professionals know intuitively and demonstrably that criminals prey on the most vulnerable of their neighbors. It is their very vulnerability that makes them attractive to someone seek...
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For the past few years, implicit bias and antidiscrimination have become buzzwords in many police departments; agencies have phoned in experts and mandated additional bias training for officers at an ...
