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9 The Future of Policing Research
Pages 327-331

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From page 327...
... Policing stands in first place among all criminal justice agencies in the use of the tools of social science, including surveys, sophisticated statistical analysis and mapping, systematic observation, quasi-experiments, and randomized controlled trials. Neither prosecutors nor prisons nor courts can match the intensity with which police have embraced social science.
From page 328...
... To advance this, the committee recommends legislation requiring police agencies to file annual reports to the public on the number of persons shot at, wounded, and killed by police officers in the line of duty. The committee also recommends an emphasis on measuring citizen views of the quality of police service, through support for the Bureau of Justice statistics to develop and pilot test in a variety of police departments a system to document the nature and extent of police-citizen encounters and informal applications of police authority.
From page 329...
... However, given the regular recurrence of allegations of racial injustice by the police and the inconclusive nature of the available findings, the committee judges it a high research priority to establish the nature and extent to which race and ethnicity affect police practice, independent of other legal and extralegal considerations. The committee recommends the launching of a periodic national survey to gauge public assessments of the quality of police service in their community.
From page 330...
... The committee further recommends that the National Institute of Justice support a program of rigorous evaluation of new crime information technologies in local police agencies. To better understand the nature of the policing industry, the committee recommends a special study of the dimensions of the private security industry, and that the Current Population Survey be used to secure an estimate of the size and characteristics of the labor force in this sector.
From page 331...
... Police chiefs, communities, police officers and crime victims all need answers to the research questions posed here -- and to many others. What has been accomplished so far demonstrates that many police departments are willing hosts for researchers and consumers of their findings.


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