Policing to Promote the Rule of Law and Protect the Population An Evidence-Based Approach (2022) / Chapter Skim
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It has shown the limits of applying existing evidence across a highly variable landscape of international policing. Yet what this report has also shown is the success of research itself.
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As noted in Chapter 1, even when research is translated, an evidence-based policing approach requires that foreign assistance donors and partner law enforcement agencies build receptivity to this knowledge, such that police officers and local leadership are amenable to it. Institutionalizing research and embedding it in practice then likely requires making fundamental adjustments to any police organization's systems and infrastructure of incentives, accountability, deployment, supervision, management, leadership, technology, and professional development to sustain an evidence-based approach over time.
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The result would be a more selective targeting of different kinds of police reforms in different countries, based on feasibility as much as on need. With these caveats in mind, the committee outlines the following key implications for donor practice, highlighting findings from the evidence detailed in previous chapters that can inform capacity-building efforts.
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The con sequences of such policies may improve police legitimacy and community confidence in the police by reducing hostility between police officers and citizens and elevating values of equal protection and respect both within and outside the police service. Recruitment policies can actively encourage the recruitment of underrepresented groups or remove structural obstacles to such recruitment.
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While community-oriented policing does not often have consistent crime prevention or deterrence benefits, some programs can improve citizen satisfaction with police services (although the impacts on perceptions of police legitimacy may be weaker, see Chapter 4)
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Foreign assistance donors, such as the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, should examine their training in light of material and resources provided in this report and be prepared to continue to adapt curricula as new knowledge emerges. RECOMMENDATION 2: Foreign assistance donors, including the Bu reau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S.
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