Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
17 July 2021
Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
"Policing the teen brain" is a training regimen devised by Strategies for Youth that teaches police officers to de-escalate conflicts with adolescents to avoid unnecessary incarceration. Youth detention has dropped si...
2 July 2021
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
A controversial police shooting and other fraught encounters between Tempe police and residents prompted police to devise their own retraining regimen focused on de-escalation. The department observed other cities' pr...
28 June 2021
Denver, Colorado, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
After videos showed two Minneapolis police officers did nothing to stop Derek Chauvin from killing George Floyd, more than 130 police departments raced to sign up to train their officers on how to intervene to prevent...
11 June 2021
Marietta, Georgia, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
In Marietta, Ga., a viral video of police beating a man to gain control of him in an arrest led to mandatory training for new police officers in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. The martial arts training reduced injuries to both ...
11 May 2021
California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
More than a year after taking effect, California's law restricting when police can use deadly force has had some effects on police accountability and training, but a number of flaws illustrate how long and difficult t...
6 May 2021
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
When Minneapolis police officers were videotaped standing by or trying ineffectively to intervene in George Floyd's murder by a fellow officer, horrified police departments nationwide rushed to embrace a peer interven...
22 April 2021
Rimini, Italy
Text
1500-3000 Words
An organization in Italy, spearheaded by a father who has a child with autism, is working to train local businesses how to recognize, react, and serve families who may have a member in their party with autism. Althoug...
5 February 2021
Los Angeles, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Community Safety Partnership Bureau of the Los Angeles Police Department has worked for a decade in 10 neighborhoods to prevent crime through building trust among residents, rather than through the LAPD's costly a...
4 February 2021
Rhode Island, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Substitute Teacher Training Program in Rhode Island is helping to fill a need for substitute teachers, as well as helping those looking for a job a quick way to find employment. The program is completely free, sel...
10 January 2021
Newark, New Jersey, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In 2020, six years after the Justice Department imposed a series of reforms on the Newark Police Department, Newark police officers have reduced their use of force so much that they didn't fire their guns at all in 20...
30 December 2020
Unity, Maine, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Across the U.S. many colleges and universities adapted their courses and curriculum to meet Covid safety guidelines, but many are seeing the pandemic as a catalyst for the necessary innovation, acceleration, and chang...
11 November 2020
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Crisis intervention training for Kansas City police officers does not reach the majority of the department and can fail to address a critical reason that police might use excessive force on people with disabilities. A...
27 October 2020
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A de-escalation training program from the Police Executive Research Forum, used by 85 police agencies already, was shown in Louisville to reduce police officers' use of force by 28%. The training resulted in 26% fewer...
24 October 2020
Wyoming, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Wyoming Works Program has helped adults afford to attend college and find better jobs. When the program started in 2019, the state government allotted $5 million dollars and since then $3 million have been used fo...
16 October 2020
Annapolis, Maryland, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
More than 1,930 Maryland poll workers were trained to protect ballot integrity from security threats based on research about where those threats may come from. The program, one of the few in the country focused on ele...
BBC
Daniel Gordon
6 October 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
In the wake of George Floyd's killing by police in Minneapolis, where several officers failed to prevent one officer's actions, New Orleans police have been besieged by requests from police nationwide to export their ...
5 October 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
By training police officers to intervene when fellow officers engage in brutality or other misconduct, the New Orleans police department has reduced officers' use of force and increased public trust. After the killing...
NYC Reopens
Eli Rallo
25 September 2020
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In New York, restaurateurs who have struggled to stay open amid the coronavirus pandemic are partnering with drag performers who have lost work due to the pandemic to offer patrons a new dining experience while also t...
18 September 2020
Rochester, New York, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
More than 2,700 police departments in the U.S. have crisis intervention teams aimed at responding to mental health crises with fewer arrests and less violence, but the death of Daniel Prude in Rochester police custody...
18 September 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Daniel Prude's death in police custody illustrates a common flaw in how police respond to mental health crises, but reform advocates disagree on whether to improve police training or bypass police almost entirely. Men...
10 September 2020
New York, New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
After all 36,000 New York Police Department officers took required training in recognizing implicit racial bias, more officers understood how racism may increase officers' aggressiveness but there was no evidence that...
25 August 2020
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A nonprofit consulting firm, Prosecutor Impact, advances the cause of reducing incarceration and related reforms by helping reform-minded elected district attorneys confront one of the greatest obstacles to change: th...
12 August 2020
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
When "junk science" forms the basis of the training curricula used by for-profit companies in the business of teaching police interrogation techniques, it can produce mistakes leading to false confessions and wrongful...
The Philadelphia Citizen
Jessica Blatt Press
10 August 2020
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Tuscon police use a combination of training and expanded resources to resolve mental health crises by putting people in the hands of mental health professionals, an approach that in 2019 diverted nearly 4,400 cases aw...
The Philadelphia Citizen
Jessica Blatt Press
15 July 2020
Daytona Beach, Florida, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Since he took over the Volusia County, Florida, Sheriff's Office in 2016, Philadelphia police veteran Mike Chitwood changed many of his department's personnel and put the entire 1,000-employee department through de-es...
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