Law enforcement data indicate that officers frequently suffer from high levels of fatigue due to lack of sleep, unusual shift schedules, and long hours awake. Research confirms that fatigue impairs a person’s mental functioning, especially in areas such as decision making, reaction time, and memory.1 However, there has been little research that directly investigates fatigue’s … Continue reading Research in Brief: Officer Fatigue and Officer-Involved Shootings—A Deadly Combination for Error