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August 2022

 

Understanding Crime Trends

GUEST EDITOR Megan Stoltz

Throughout the history of modern policing, the profession has had to adapt to a variety of environmental, societal, and technological changes. Police leaders, however, have leveraged these changes to further understand local, national, and global crime trends; understand why these trends may be occurring in their communities; and proactively address the needs of their communities to foster trust and support for police.

Articles

  • Drawing Lessons from Policing’s Past

    By Tom McKay, Principal Instructor, CPTED Professional Training Centre, Ontario, and Rick Arrington, CEO/Founder, Crime Prevention Center for Training and Services, Virginia
    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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  • Integrating Police Reform without Sacrificing Community Safety

    By Robin S. Engel, PhD, Director, Center for Police Research and Policy, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and James L. Whalen, JD, Director of Public Safety/Chief of Police (Ret.), University of Cincinnati, Ohio
    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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  • Better Data for Evolving Crime Trends

    By Andrea Gardner, NCS-X Program Manager, Bureau of Justice Statistics; Mark Pope, Director, Policing Research Program, RTI International; and Erica L. Smith, Unit Chief, Bureau of Justice Statistics
    For 90 years, the primary source of information on crimes recorded by U.S. law enforcement was the Summary Reporting System (SRS) of the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. A central stren...

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  • The Elusive Nature of Mental Health Data

    By Greg Stewart, Lieutenant (Ret.), Portland Police Bureau, Adjunct Professor, Portland State University, and Kris Henning, PhD, Professor, Portland State University, Oregon
    Three colleagues—a criminologist, a crime analyst, and a cop—meet at a bar to discuss a recent proposal in city council that would reallocate a large portion of the police department’s budget to...

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