Walking the walk: a roadmap for changing cop culture, improving public safety, and promoting justice

Featuring Colby College Professor Neil Gross and Baltimore Banner journalist and author Justin Fenton. Neil and Justin discuss Neil’s new book, Walk the Walk: How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture, which Niskanen senior fellow Matthew Yglesias called, “a refreshing break from our hyper-polarized debate over public safety and criminal justice reform.” They’re joined by Eric Jones, one of the subjects of Neil’s book. Eric recently retired as Chief of Police for the Stockton, California Police Department, and is now the Deputy County Executive for Public Safety and Justice of Sacramento County, CA.

See the discussion HERE

Study Shows Throwing Money At Law Enforcement Doesn’t Result In Lower Crime Rates | Techdirt

Pretty much every law enforcement agency gets exactly what it wants during budget discussions. The spending on policing always seems to increase, despite years of diminishing returns. The money flows in, but very little flows back out in terms of community relations, accountability, or transparency. In recent years, there have been discussions about “defunding” law…
— Read on www.techdirt.com/2024/01/25/study-shows-throwing-money-at-law-enforcement-doesnt-result-in-lower-crime-rates/

Guidance for ethical and professional behaviour in policing | College of Policing

QUESTION: Are the police officers given the same benefit of these ethical principles? For example when a police officer makes an error when working are they fired or give an opportunity to be retrained a correct their conduct? When false accusations are made against police officers are complainants arrested and prosecuted?

Guidance to help put the ethical policing principles into day-to-day practice and outline the expectations of how policing professionals should behave.
— Read on www.college.police.uk/ethics/code-of-ethics/guidance

Memphis police numbers dropped by nearly a quarter in recent years – were staffing shortages a factor in the killing of Tyre Nichols?

Police departments have faced recruitment and retention problems since the 2020 George Floyd protests. It has meant some agencies have had to lower standards to attract new officers.
— Read on theconversation.com/memphis-police-numbers-dropped-by-nearly-a-quarter-in-recent-years-were-staffing-shortages-a-factor-in-the-killing-of-tyre-nichols-199078

Michigan State Police – 4 unique reports

Michigan State Police Traffic Enforcement: An Assessment of Policies, Training, and Operations

Exploring Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Michigan State Police Traffic Stops Using the Veil of Darkness Methodology (2021 Data)

Michigan State Police Traffic Stop External Benchmarking: A Final Report on Racial and Ethnic Disparities (2020 Data)

Traffic Stop Data: 2017-2019

— Read on www.michigan.gov/msp/public-information/transparency/accordion/reports/traffic-stop-data-main