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January 2011

This issue discusses ethics and police psychology, in addition to recognizing recipients of the 2010 IACP Awards. Law enforcement is a unique profession, with officers experiencing a host of freedoms not available to the general public. Every police department has the ongoing duty to measure policing perceptions, fashion training curriculums to address those perceptions, and improve its overall policing services.

Articles

  • Psychological Factors after Officer-Involved Shootings: Addressing Officer Needs and Agency Responsibilities

    By Philip S. Trompetter, PhD, Immediate Past General Chair, IACP Police Psychological Services Section, Modesto, California; David M. Corey, PhD, ABPP, Police and Forensic Psychologist, Portland, Oregon; Wayne W. Schmidt, Esq., Americans for Effective Law Enforcement, Chicago, Illinois; and Drew Tracy, Assistant Chief, Investigative Services Bureau, Montgomery County, Maryland, Police Department
    The police use of deadly force is a consequential event for all parties: the officers and their families, the agency, the community, and the suspects and their families and survivors. In light of thes...

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  • Understanding the Psychology of Police Misconduct

    By Brian D. Fitch, PhD, Lieutenant, Los Angeles, California, Sheriff?s Department
    Law enforcement is a unique profession, with officers experiencing a host of freedoms not available to the general public, including the application of deadly force, high-speed driving, and seizing pe...

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  • Updating Ethics Training-Policing Privacy Series: Taking Race out of the Perception Equation

    By Thomas J. Martinelli, Adjunct Professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; and Joseph A. Schafer, Associate Professor, Center for the Study of Crime, Delinquency and Corrections, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
    Policing has always been about differing perceptions. In police research, academicians use the perceptions of citizens, officers, and supervisors to measure the successes, or failures, of an organizat...

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  • War on Terror or Policing Terrorism? Radicalization and Expansion of the Threats

    By By Alain Bauer, Professor of Criminology, National Conservatory for Arts and Crafts, Paris; Senior Research Fellow, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, and Beijing University of Law, China; President, French National Council on Strategic Research; French National Crime Commission; Consultant, New York City, New York, Police Department, Los Angeles, California, Sheriff?s Department, and Sûreté du Québec, Canada

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  • Awards Presented during IACP 2010 in Orlando, Florida

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