Tag: Research

Federation responds to Leadership Commission report

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/

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:

  1. Understand what near repeat patterns are and why they are useful to policing
  2. Evaluate global and local patterns of near repeat
  3. Formulate appropriate responses these patterns
  4. Develop program metrics to understand the effect of the intervention
  5. Evaluate a near repeat crime prevention program

See the complete policy brief HERE

Agents of Chaos and Cruelty: How the Trump Administration’s National Deportation Policing Force Has Attacked American Communities | American Civil Liberties Union

This ACLU research report, Agents of Chaos and Cruelty, documents widespread civil rights violations carried out by immigration agents during the first year of President Trump’s second term. The report examines immigration enforcement incidents in eight states – representing a cross-section of the country and reflecting varying degrees of federal law enforcement presence and personnel surges – and found that over 400 of the more than 1,200 immigration enforcement incidents examined involved misconduct by immigration agents. The report ends with detailed recommendations urging policymakers to call for transformative change to our immigration system, in recognition that it is broken and dangerous to human rights.
— Read on www.aclu.org/publications/agents-of-chaos-and-cruelty-how-the-trump-administrations-national-deportation-policing-force-has-attacked-american-communities

Predictive Risk Scores in the Public Sector: Experimental Evidence from Child-Protection Investigations | NBER

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
— Read on www.nber.org/papers/w35540

PSP Traffic Stop Data Analysis Reflects Impartial, Evidence-Based Policing | State Police | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Harrisburg, PA – As part of the Shapiro Administration’s commitment to transparency and fair policing, the Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) today announced the release of an independent analysis of data collected from all trooper-initiated traffic stops conducted in 2025. The report was conducted by a research team based at the University of Cincinnati and led by Dr. Robin Engel, Senior Research Scientist at The Ohio State University’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs and one of the nation’s leading policing researchers. The report represents the latest findings from PSP’s traffic stop data collection initiative, which is designed to strengthen public trust, enhance trooper and motorist safety, and inform policy and training.
— Read on www.pa.gov/agencies/psp/newsroom/psp-traffic-stop-data-analysis-reflects-impartial–evidence-base

Get a .PDF of the report HERE

What 1,000 Studies Reveal About the Crime-Fighting Strategy Many Cities Abandoned | Law Enforcement Today | lawenforcementtoday.com

More than 1,000 studies and decades of research point to the same conclusion: proactive policing reduces crime. So why are so many departments pulling back? This analysis explores the evidence, the controversy, and the difficult decisions reshaping modern law enforcement.
— Read on lawenforcementtoday.com/proactive-policing-research-reduces-crime-analysis