Procedural justice, broadly speaking, refers to the extent to which people believe that authorities are fair in the execution of their...

In law enforcement, active bystandership is an invaluable practice. Stepping in when a colleague is gripped by conflict is not only good...

Law enforcement are no strangers to threat and danger. It’s essential to the job. Officers sign up to confront violence and crime and...

Law enforcement officers make countless life-or-death decisions throughout their careers. To help illustrate the pattern of thinking that...

In our conflict-resolution skills training, Insight Policing: Conflict Resolution for Law Enforcement, we start off with an activity...

According to the Department of Justice, nearly 425,000 youth — kids under the age of 18 — are arrested each year. Approximately 48,000...

The push for police reform in the wake of George Floyd has activated mandates across the country for both de-escalation and active...

According to the latest Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) count from 2011–2012, 68% of four-year colleges and universities with 2,500...

De-escalation can be a foggy term. On the one hand, it refers to gaining control over an enforcement situation that is threatening to...

During the summer protests of 2020, a crowd of angry demonstrators surrounded a police car in Memphis, Tennessee, threatening and...

In today’s world of policing, the brave men and women who have taken on this profession have been placed under immense scrutiny and...

An officer carries an average of 20 pounds of equipment at any given time. On their belt hangs their duty weapon, extra magazines, Taser,...

In 1995, fresh out of a big-city police academy in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, my focus was on arresting bad guys to make my community...

When the doctor and his wife came out of the house, I could finally breathe again. For two hours, they’d been held at gunpoint in the...

Serving 17 years as a school resource officer in New Jersey taught me a couple of tricks on how to get through to young people and help...

Following the fatal police shooting of 22-year-old Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man in Sacramento, protesters have gathered to express...

Researchers are exploring some new solutions to an old problem. The arrest of Sandra Bland has added fuel to a long-running national...

The disturbing video released earlier this week of the stop and arrest of Sandra Bland highlights once again the excessive and...