Building Trust, Reducing Crime: What Procedural Justice Training Means For Hot Spot Policing
This brief discusses how procedural justice training at crime hot spots can reduce arrests, improve officer behavior, and lower crime without eroding public trust.
Adapted from Weisburd, D., Telep, C.W., Vovak, H., Zastrow, T., Braga, A.A., & Turchan, B. (2022). Reforming the police through procedural justice training: A multicity randomized trial at crime hotspots. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2118780119
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