Police In-Service Training
Police In-Service Training
Podcast Description
This podcast is dedicated to providing research evidence to street-level police officers and command staff alike. The program is intended to provide research in a jargon-free manner that cuts through the noise, misinformation, and misperceptions about the police. The discussions with policing experts will help the law enforcement community create better programs, understand challenging policies, and dispel myths of police officer behavior.
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The podcast centers around key issues in policing, including police training approaches, the integration of artificial intelligence in policing, hiring and retention challenges, and concepts like procedural justice. For example, recent episodes cover the guardian versus warrior training frameworks, the implications of AI on policing efficiency, and the nuances of improving police legitimacy through procedural justice.
This podcast offers conversations with policing experts to help the law enforcement community create better programs, understand challenging policies, and dispel myths of police officer behavior. The program is intended to provide research in a jargon-free manner that cuts through the noise, misinformation, and misperceptions about the police.
Some 50 years ago, the policing scholar John van Maanen wrote an article titled ”the asshole,” concluding that the use of derogatory labels had an importance to the police occupation. Using labels was important to police officers. Essentially, the use of derogatory labels by police officers serves a purpose, and labeling people is part of a policing culture. Some current research suggests there is greater depth when understanding policing’s use of labels. Today we are joined by Abigail Henson, an assistant professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. Dr. Henson is going to tell us about her recent study titled, “Negotiating the “Bad Guy”: Defensive Simplification and Moral Ambiguity in Police Work.””
Main Topics
- Understanding the use of labels uncovers another complexity dimension of policing.
- A single label with multiple dimensions can help officers deal with morally ambiguous situations.
- Heuristic or “shortcut labels” are based on biased information that has existed in policing for generations.
- The police culture trains and ingrains the use of labels, making it that much harder to eliminate their use.
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