Why police reforms rarely succeed: Lessons from Latin America
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Helping child witnesses: A new design for police lineups
Child eyewitnesses make more mistakes than adults when identifying criminals. A new police lineup design could help us assess their reliability and prevent wrongful convictions.
New research reveals how little we can trust eyewitnesses
Turns out eyewitness testimony is one of the least reliable forms of evidence.
Lessons for first responders on the front lines of terrorism
Given the persistent risk of terrorist attacks and large-scale accidents, it's more critical than ever for EMTs, police, firefighters and others to learn from the past.
When crime drops, the demands on the police don’t necessarily fall
But with many different demands on police time, some not relating to crime, it's hard to estimate.
Doctors and nurses can’t always tell if someone’s drunk or on drugs, and misdiagnosis can be dangerous
We all know what a drunk person looks like, right? Wrong. Even health care workers can be confused.
We do nothing for missing people who come home – here’s what should change
99% of people who disappear come home again. A third of them don't stay.
Australian authorities are doing all they can to combat terrorism
There is good evidence that Australia's counter-terrorism strategies are working.
Eight minutes on London Bridge: years of training led to lightning police response
The attack in London was horrific but armed officers were on the scene and ending it with astonishing speed.
Lindt Cafe siege inquest highlights need for police to change their closed-off culture
Policing culture is often associated with a lack of transparency and a resistance to external examination.
Fact Check: do the police spend over a million hours a year fighting cannabis?
The figures don't really add up.
Why big-data analysis of police activity is inherently biased
Crime data reflect only what crimes are identified by the police – not all the crimes that occur. So decisions based on crime data are necessarily biased and incompletely informed.
Police officer suicide: it’s not just about workplace stress, but culture too
It is often assumed that police are at higher risk of suicide than other members of the community because of the stress involved in their jobs. But the picture is more complicated than that.
Police around the world learn to fight global-scale cybercrime
Cybercriminals are using cloud-based services, much like regular businesses. A new study reveals important lessons for the future of fighting cybercrime.
Young guns take charge of Europe’s mafia clans – with deadly results
Police and the courts have locked up some of Europe's most notorious mob bosses – but the next generation of would-be kingpins are even worse.
Why South Africa should follow Portugal and decriminalise drug use
Portugal won the war on drugs by giving up. What lessons can South Africa learn from their approach?
Want to help Chicago’s youth? Pay more attention to the effect of violence on police
The DOJ has found excessive use of force in the Baltimore, Ferguson and Chicago police departments. Could a solution be found by seeing the police as victims of violence as well?
Banning orders won’t solve alcohol-fuelled violence – but they can be part of the solution
Banning orders can encourage personal responsibility and demonstrate that anti-social behaviour will not be tolerated.
Patriot’s Day: a bizarre and suspect portrayal of the Boston bombings
It is difficult not to see the film as a vanity project for Wahlberg.
Police and French youth: A long and brutal history
Governments' continual use of security forces to 'keep order' in low-income and minority neighborhoods masks their inability find solutions other than force.
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