At its most fundamental level, policing is a public service. And there is a trend in policing to recognize that duty. This episode will explore how some police agencies have begun to work with service providers to help people into drug treatment. Professor Sean Varano, from Roger Williams University, discusses some of the complexities of this goal. Dr. Varano is an active collaborator with local communities implementing and evaluating evidence-based approaches to crime and public health. He was a co-principal investigator/evaluator for the City of Providence’s Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) gang reduction program funded through the U.S. Department of Justice.

If you are interested in some of the training, strategic guidance, support, and resources to help law enforcement agencies implement diversion programs, here are a few links:

The Police Assisted Addiction & Recovery Initiative (PAARI):
https://paariusa.org/

Police Treatment and Community Collaborative (PTACC):
https://ptaccollaborative.org/

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"Policing Humor" can be interpreted in two ways. First, the cops are cracking down on jokes or anyone trying to be a "funny guy." Second, and correctly, the notion that policing expose officers to a lot of funny situations. But there is utility in humor, and we'll examine this in the podcast. Further, attempts to take away the ability for officers to crack jokes with each other can have negative effects on officers and policing in general.

I'm joined by S. Marlon Gayadeen from Buffalo State University who will bring some depth to the idea that policing (as with other stressful jobs), to some extent, requires humor.

S. Marlon Gayadeen is an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at SUNY Buffalo State University. His research interests are anchored in sociological (classical, contemporary & organizational) and criminological theoretical frameworks. Government agencies and criminal justice practitioners have utilized his insights on crime causation.

If you are interested in reading the article that we discuss, I can provide a PDF version (Gayadeen, S. M., & Phillips, S. W. (2016). Donut time: the use of humor across the police work environment. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 5(1), 44-59).

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In this episode we speak with Steven Bishopp, a Major in the Dallas Police Department. Steve has been with the DPD for over 30 years. Currently, he leads the R&D division, which handles police crime numbers from the reports officers do in the field. He also leads the department's UCR/NIBRS team, which validates offense and arrest data under NIBRS rules and submits monthly data to Texas DPS/FBI NIBRS. Steve earned a Ph.D. from UT Dallas, and has been published many times on a variety of subjects. If you'd like to track down some of the research we discuss in this podcast, please contact me and I'll try to send you some PDFs.

Here are some of the articles we discussed:

Dae-Young Kim, Scott W. Phillips, & Stephen Bishopp. (2021). Exploring the police use of force continuum with a partial proportional odds model. Policing: An International Journal, 45(2), 252-265.

John L. Worrall, Stephen A. Bishopp, Scott C. Zinser, Andrew P. Wheeler, & Scott W. Phillips. (2018). Exploring bias in police shooting decisions with real shoot/don’t shoot cases. Crime & Delinquency, 64(9), 1171-1192.

Worrall, J. L., Bishopp, S. A., & Terrill, W. (2021). The effect of suspect race on police officers’ decisions to draw their weapons. Justice Quarterly, 38(7), 1428-1447.

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Why am I spending time on a podcast for the police? I want to get officers and command staff information that can help them in their jobs. This first episode explains the goals of this podcast, and since I'm discussing the origins of this idea, I decided to start with a conversation about police firearms. We think the police have been carrying sidearms forever, but that's not true. The police have been responding to their work environment with increased firepower simply because that's what they've been up against. Cops are not "boys with toys." It has been inevitable that police would carry increased firepower because things have simply evolved that way.

If you're interested in the article on the history of police firearms, here's the title (send me an email and I'll send you the PDF version):

Phillips, S. W. (2021). A historical examination of police firearms. The Police Journal, 94(2), 122-137.

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A short trailer describing the podcast.

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