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Contagious Fire: New Experimental Evidence on Police Shooting Behavior
This brief discusses how officer shooting behavior in high-stress situations can be powerfully shaped by the actions of peer officers. Officers are more likely to fire, and to fire more rounds, when peers fire first.
Adapted from DeCarlo, J., Dlugolenski, E., & Myers, D. (2024). An experimental test of the contagious fire thesis in policing. Journal of Criminal Justice, 93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crimjus.2024.102215.
IACP's Evidence-to-Action Hub is your go-to resource for fast, accessible, and actionable summaries of research designed for immediate use by police executives, command staff, and practitioners.
Focus Where it Matters: How Strategic Policing Reduces Serious Crime
This brief discusses how concentrating police and city resources strategically on the few locations and individuals driving most violent crime delivers major public safety gains without widespread enforcement or loss of public trust.
Adapted from MacDonald, J.M. Smith, M.R., & Groff, E. (2025). A focused approach to concentrating on crime and criminal offenders. Police Chief, 92 (forthcoming).
IACP's Evidence-to-Action Hub is your go-to resource for fast, accessible, and actionable summaries of research designed for immediate use by police executives, command staff, and practitioners.
Public Satisfaction with Police: Using Procedural Justice to Improve Police Legitimacy
Community trust within the context of policing is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon, so it is essential to recognize that some resources within the Community Trust Resource Library may not exhibit a direct link with the concept of community trust. Nevertheless, many different dimensions of policing may contribute to the broader concept of community trust, even if their connections are not immediately apparent.
Public Satisfaction with Police: Using Procedural Justice to Improve Police Legitimacy
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