The Police Leadership Commission, chaired by former Home Secretary Lord Blunkett and former Policing Minister Lord Herbert, has published its final report, Professionalism and Performance: Police Leadership for the Future, following one of the most extensive examinations of policing leadership in a generation.
Drawing on evidence from thousands of officers, staff and stakeholders, the Commission concludes that leadership development across policing is too inconsistent and has suffered from decades of underinvestment. It warns frontline supervisors are often inadequately prepared for leadership responsibilities and that opportunities for development vary significantly across forces.
The findings echo concerns long raised by the Police Federation.
— Read on polfed.org/news/latest-news/2026/federation-responds-to-leadership-commission-report/
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NJ college athlete shot dead by cops after mistakenly trying to enter stranger’s home during night of drinking: family
Unarmed NJ college student Glen Pysher, 22, was shot and killed by police after mistakenly trying to enter a stranger’s Pennsylvania home.
— Read on nypost.com/2026/08/24/us-news/nj-college-athlete-shot-dead-by-cops-after-mistakenly-trying-to-enter-strangers-home-during-night-of-drinking-family/
Summarizing a Historic 2025 Crime Report with Charts & Tables
The FBI released its 2025 Crime in the United States report on a Friday afternoon which wasn’t there fault but also was super great for getting a ton of attention on the fact that murder fell at the fastest pace ever recorded to the lowest rate recorded since the FBI started its modern estimates.
— Read on jasher.substack.com/p/summarizing-a-historic-2025-crime
Social Control Works: Lessons for Criminal Justice Reformers | Vital City
A criminologist reviews 70 years of evidence on how to prevent crime.
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/lessons-for-criminal-justice-reformers/
‘Suicide by Cop’: How a Poorly Defined Term Shifts Accountability for Lost Lives
Austin officers killed an unarmed 17-year-old at a park last month in what the chief swiftly deemed “suicide by police.” Some call the concept a type of “junk science.”
— Read on www.texasobserver.org/suicide-by-cop-austin-accountability-police-shooting/
Automated License Plate Readers Save Lives. But Many Want Them Banned
A bipartisan pushback against automated license plate readers is misguided.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/automated-license-plate-readers-flock
Broken Windows Works: Don’t Be Fooled By Latest Efforts To Discredit It.
Broken Windows policing receives credit—rightly—for being part of the crime turnaround that saved New York and other cities. The theory, originating with George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson, argued that tolerating too much local disorder created a climate in which criminal behavior, including serious crimes, would become more likely, since criminals would sense that […]
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/broken-windows-works
Embedded: “We Keep Us Safe” from NPR, KUOW and The Seattle Times : NPR
In the summer of 2020, sixteen-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. traveled a thousand miles to join the racial justice movement of his generation. He arrived in Seattle during the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, known as CHOP. Less than a week later, he was shot and killed there. The case remains unsolved.
— Read on www.npr.org/2026/06/04/g-s1-120825/seattle-chop-zone-antonio-mays
Upstate NY sheriff puts Hochul in her place for sanctuary policy threats
Cattaraugus County Sheriff Eric Butler slammed Gov. Kathy Hochul’s push to end local jail agreements with ICE under NY’s new sanctuary laws.
— Read on nypost.com/2026/08/11/us-news/upstate-ny-sheriff-puts-hochul-in-her-place-for-sanctuary-policy-threats/
TACKLING NEAR REPEAT CRIME
This document is designed to assist law enforcement professionals in identifying and responding to near repeat patterns of victimization. Several open source tools are broadly discussed as they are necessary to quantify near repeat patterns and develop interventions; we encourage you to review those program’s user manuals for more details.
This report will help you:
- Understand what near repeat patterns are and why they are useful to policing
- Evaluate global and local patterns of near repeat
- Formulate appropriate responses these patterns
- Develop program metrics to understand the effect of the intervention
- Evaluate a near repeat crime prevention program
See the complete policy brief HERE
Future of Policing 