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Abstract: 

This article discusses how policing generally and police training specifically have transformed in recent decades to adopt evidence-based approaches intended to enhance police services in communities. It discusses the rise of the evidence-based policing movement, details recent innovative work that provides some of the first evidence to inform police training, and highlights existing approaches to integrating the community into police training. It concludes by discussing the pressing need to continue the integration of evidence into training for police officers.

Keywords: Police training, evidence-based policing (EBP), peer intervention training, implicit bias training, de-escalation training

Affiliations:  1: National Policing Institute; 2: National Policing Institute; 3: University of Cincinnati.