Study: Intensive, specialized training of police officers leads to reduced crime, fewer arrests and more positive interactions and community evaluations
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Can training police officers in procedural justice reduce crime and improve the community's perceptions of the police?
Key Points:
- Can training police officers in procedural justice reduce crime and improve the community's perceptions of the police?
- Perceptions of the police on the streets where these officers worked also improved during the study.
- The findings are good news for police, community leaders, and others who seek ways to reduce crime while simultaneously improving police-community relations.
- Further, this interventionprocedural justice training to improve officers' community interaction skillsis especially powerful because it can benefit all officers and improve police-community interactions generally.