Police-Community Relations in Baltimore – The Abell Foundation

2 reports available at the bottom of the webpage.

Part 1- What Can Be Done To Improve Police- Community Relations In Baltimore? Exploring the experiences and perspectives of Black residents

Part 2- Improving Baltimore Police Relations With the City’s Black Community: Alternate response to non-criminal emergency calls for service

Police-Community Relations in Baltimore – The Abell Foundation
— Read on abell.org/publication/police-community-relations-in-baltimore/

Black Drivers In Chicago More Likely To Be Stopped By Police Than Ticketed By Camera, Study Finds

“Regardless of where you are in the city and the makeup of drivers on the road, Black drivers are always a higher proportion of those that are stopped,” the study’s lead author said.
— Read on blockclubchicago.org/2024/06/10/black-drivers-in-chicago-more-likely-to-be-stopped-by-police-than-ticketed-by-camera-study-finds/

De-escalation Training: What Works, Implementation Lessons, and Taking It to Scale; Plenary at the 2023 NIJ Research Conference

There is a video of the panel discussion at the website below.

Police use of force, while infrequently used, is a tremendous concern to public safety in the United States when officers employ it excessively or inappropriately, causing injury or death and eroding public trust in law enforcement. This plenary from the 2023 NIJ Research Conference describes the Integrating, Communications, Assessment, and Tactics (ICAT) de-escalation training program developed by the Police Executive Research Forum to guide officers in defusing critical incidents. A rigorous evaluation of ICAT found it reduced overall use of force as well as injuries to both officers and members of the public. Panelists will describe how research evidence was used to develop the training curriculum; discuss strategies to ensure training implementation fidelity and secure the buy-in of all ranks; describe preliminary findings from complementary NIJ-sponsored replication evaluations; and explore strategies to take ICAT to scale. Led by Karhlton Moore, director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the plenary was a discussion among Robin Engel, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, National Policing Institute Maris Herold, Chief, Boulder Police Department, Colorado Chuck Wexler, Executive Director, Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) Justin Witt, Sergeant, Louisville Metro Police Department, Kentucky
— Read on nij.ojp.gov/multimedia/de-escalation-training

NYPD monitor tracking stop and frisk abuses has cost $36 million | News | flcourier.com

NEW YORK — The New York Police Department monitor, in place more than a decade after a federal judge said officers abused the stop and frisk tactic, violating the constitutional
— Read on www.flcourier.com/news/nypd-monitor-tracking-stop-and-frisk-abuses-has-cost-36-million/article_d44c7062-24ce-11ef-abb0-43172fb12a19.html

Do digital technologies reduce racially biased reporting? Evidence from NYPD administrative data | PNAS

Recent work has emphasized the disproportionate bias faced by minorities when interacting with law enforcement. However, research on the topic has been hampered by biased sampling in administrative data, namely that records of police interactions with citizens only reflect information on the civilians that police elect to investigate, and not civilians that police observe but do not investigate. In this work, we address a related bias in administrative police data which has received less empirical attention, namely reporting biases around investigations that have taken place. Further, we investigate whether digital monitoring tools help mitigate this reporting bias. To do so, we examine changes in reports of interactions between law enforcement and citizens in the wake of the New York City Police Department’s replacement of analog memo books with mobile smartphones. Results from a staggered difference in differences estimation indicate a significant increase in reports of citizen stops once the new smartphones are deployed.
— Read on www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2402375121