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In this peculiar year-end episode, Policing Matters podcast big Jim Dudley is erstwhile again joined by Janay Gasparini, Ph.D., to instrumentality a heavy dive into the captious issues impacting instrumentality enforcement successful 2022. Jim and Janay sermon the pursuing 10 key areas:   

1.  Emerging forms and strategies successful usage of force

Top quotes from this segment:

"I deliberation we are seeing a batch is this alteration successful our hands-on strategies to amended bespeak controlling subjects arsenic opposed to thing that mightiness look similar excessive usage of force."

"When bash you deliberation we are going to spot a committee successful Congress that says let's perceive to experts earlier we marque legislative changes?"

Additional resources: 

• BolaWrap caller less-lethal instrumentality for police 
• The GLOVE from Compliant Technologies 
• Rener Gracie connected the request for constabulary Jiu-Jitsu training
• FBI's National Use of Force Data Collection program
• Use of unit reporting from companies similar Mark 43 and Thin Blue Defend seizure captious details to forestall wrongful outcomes successful usage of unit case

2. Officer morale 

Top quotes from this segment:

"Have determination truly been immoderate shifts since past year? We had our authorities of the manufacture survey with 75% of officers reporting that morale is down since past year, truthful it begs the question of 'Where are we astatine the extremity of 2022?'"    

"First-line supervisors substance a full heck of a batch much than we realize."

Additional resources:

• What cops privation successful 2022: Police1's State of the Industry survey
• Roundtable: How to amended serviceman morale successful 2022

3. Importance of nonstop supervisors/leadership

Additional resource:

The 22 enactment traits cops are looking for successful their supervisors successful 2022

4. Navigating Gen Z

Top quotes from this segment:

"There is truthful overmuch astir Gen Z that we cognize from the probe that doesn't acceptable with our accepted policing tenets."    

"Meet them wherever they are. And wherever are they? They are online." 

5. Virtual world training 

Top quotes from this segment:

"As a recruitment tool, arsenic a grooming tool, it is going to bash precise good with Gen Z. It is large for that, but I was truly funny to spot however it is being utilized successful different facets of the justness strategy and not conscionable for usage of unit scenarios."

"We person lone begun to recognize the imaginable of utilizing virtual world for our officers."

Additional resources:

• How virtual world tin trim profiling successful policing
• WRAP's Societal Rentry Solution Enterprises, portion of Wrap Reality virtual world grooming system, helps reintegrate incarcerated individuals
• LAPD launches V-Armed virtual world grooming programme for officers

6. Police suicide, serviceman intelligence wellness

Top punctuation from this segment:

"I bash judge with younger officers that they look to beryllium much alert of the self-care piece, of the realities of the job."

Additional resources:

• Blue H.E.L.P.: How a nonprofit is connected a ngo to trim constabulary suicides, destruct intelligence wellness stigma
• Marie Ridgeway: The worth of intelligence wellness check-ins for instrumentality enforcement 
• Dr. David Black connected how the Cordico app provides wellness enactment for cops
• Crisis help: National Suicide Prevention, Veterans Crisis Line, Copline.

7. Ambushes connected police

Additional resource:

• Remembering the Lakewood Four: 6 keys to preventing an ambush

8. Refunding the police 

"When these policies really play retired connected the thoroughfare level you spot the stark quality betwixt what is connected insubstantial and what is successful reality."

9. Crime and policing arsenic a nationalist contented astatine midterm elections 

Top quotes from this segment:

"We recognize the tone down bail betterment but erstwhile I spell into enactment and I spot the latest home unit lawsuit travel crossed and idiosyncratic has forced themselves into their partner's flat and attempted a strangulation and this idiosyncratic was released connected an quality ticket, it conscionable doesn't beryllium good with me."

"As overmuch arsenic the nationalist thinks that the constabulary person the past accidental successful who gets arrested and who goes to prison, determination is simply a immense process successful betwixt that archetypal apprehension and the jailhouse doorway slamming. It is nationalist defenders,  territory attorneys, judges, juries and legislators."

10. The large resignation

Top punctuation from this segment:

"This is not conscionable officers leaving astatine the property of retirement, but this is officers leaving for different jobs."

What bash you deliberation was the astir captious contented impacting instrumentality enforcement this year? Email editor@police1.com.

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