After Newtown: Policing and Mental Health Experts Meet to Develop Prevention...
On January 14, 2013, in the first of a series of meetings we will host on critical issues facing the police and the communities they serve, the Police Foundation convened a distinguished group of...
View ArticleGuns in America- The Complete Technical Report
This month's "From the Archive" installment focuses on an issue that is, and has been, the subject of much discussion. Guns in America, is a product of the National Survey of Private Ownership of...
View ArticleRandomized Experiments at the Police Foundation: 40 Years of Innovation
The major problem that faces evaluation researchers in policing (and, indeed, in the social sciences more generally) is that causes and effects are extremely difficult to isolate in the complex social...
View ArticleMoving beyond the 40%- Why more research on firearms acquisition is needed
Police Foundation research has played a vital role in the current gun control debate sparked by the Newtown, CT tragedy. Some of the use of this research has once again made it clear that policymakers...
View ArticleNew Publication Available: The Effect of Body-Worn Cameras on Police...
Police Foundation Executive Fellow, Chief Tony Farrar, recently completed an extensive yearlong study to evaluate the effect of body-worn video cameras on police use-of-force. This randomized...
View ArticleWhich Shift is Best?
The March 2013 issue of Police Chief Magazine contains a research-in-brief of the Police Foundation study, The Shift Length Experiment: What We Know About 8-, 10-, and 12-Hour Shifts in Policing. The...
View ArticleLiberian National Police Complete US Study Tour
As part of the Liberia National Police Mobile Training Team Project for the US Department of State, 20 members of the Liberia National Police recently completed a 3-week US study tour developed and...
View ArticleFrom the Archive- Citizen Contact Patrol: The Houston Field Test
This month's From the Archive document is a research project conducted by the Police Foundation, and funded by the National Institute of Justice, in the early 1980's. In 1983 - 1984, the citizen...
View ArticleDr. Karen Amendola testifies at DC City Council hearing on eyewitness...
Police Foundation COO Dr. Karen Amendola testified before the D.C. City Council’s Judiciary and Public Safety Committee on March 21 about the Eyewitness Identification Procedures Act of 2013,...
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From the Archive: The Newark Foot Patrol Experiment
The Police Foundation is pleased to announce that the Newark Foot Patrol Experiment is now available online through our electronic library. This 1981 landmark experiment developed critical information...
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From the Archive- Firearm Violence: A Research & Policy Report
The latest installment of the “From the Archive” series marks the addition Firearm Abuse: A Research and Policy Report to the Foundation’s growing online library. This 1976 report set out to establish...
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From the Archive- Police Community Stations: The Houston Field Test
This installment of “From the Archive” adds the Police Community Stations: The Houston Field Test to the Foundations growing online library. The Fear Reduction Series of studies was conducted by the...
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From the Archive- Coordinated Community Policing
This report summarizes the results of a field test conducted by the Newark Police Department and evaluated by the Police Foundation. The test, successfully carried our from the fall of 1983 through the...
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From the Archive- Police as Community Organizers
This report summarizes the results of a field test conducted by the Houston Police Department and evaluated by the Police Foundation under a grant from the National Institute of Justice. The project,...
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From the Archive- Reducing the Signs of Crime
This report summarizes the results of a field test conducted by the Newark Police Department and evaluated by the Police Foundation under a grant from the National Institute of Justice. The test,...
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From the Archive- The Minneaoplis Community Crime Prevention Experiment
In this installment of From the Archive, we discuss the results of a 1987 study conducted in Minneapolis, MN. The study evaluated the effects of two community oriented policing strategies. Using a...
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From the Archive- The City in Crisis
/*-->*/ This report presents the findings of the advisory board to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners in response to the 1992 Los Angeles Riots (also known as the Rodney King Riots). The...
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From the Archive: Police Response Time: Its Determinants and Effects
This report is based on supplemental data collected for the Kansas City Preventative Patrol Experiment. Although not originally designed for this purpose, observational and survey data collected for...
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From the Archive: Assessing Law Enforcement Ethics
*/ Law enforcement officers confront situations that generate ethical dilemmas on a daily basis. Transgressions against ethical standards, whether legal or cultural, have the ability to undermine...
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New Publication- The Mobilization of Crime Mapping & Intelligence Gathering
The Police Foundation recently concluded a two-year project to develop, deploy, and evaluate the use of smartphones in law enforcement. The availability of high performance hardware and law enforcement...
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