Police Academy Training

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Dr. Gene Paoline discusses his research into police academy training in the United States. Using Bureau of Justice Statistics data from their census of police academy’s, Gene and his colleagues identified six basic themes of academy training.

Main Topics

• Police academy training has not changed substantially in nearly twenty years.
• There is an imbalance in academy training (academy topics vs. what's done on the street; academy topics themselves).
• “More” training is not necessarily the issue, it has more to do with “what topics” are trained.
• More information is needed on the training quality and delivery method.

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