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New Research Shows – Police Academies Dedicate Only 3.21% Of Training Hours To Ethics And Other Public Service Topics
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New Research Shows – Police Academies Dedicate Only 3.21% Of Training Hours To Ethics And Other Public Service Topics

Police academies provide little training in the kinds of skills necessary to meet officers’ growing public service role, according to my research. Highly publicized cases of police violence – such as the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri – often raise questions about police training, and whether officers are prepared to do the job that is expected of them. As a public administration researcher who conducts leadership training for law enforcement supervisors across the country, I set out to investigate what future police officers learn in basic training – specifically, whether they are taught the kind of public service skills that many people expect them to display on the job. How police are trained Police officers, like ...