Policing to Promote the Rule of Law and Protect the Population An Evidence-Based Approach (2022) / Chapter Skim
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5 Conclusions and Recommendations
5 Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 75-84
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Department of State partners adds extra layers of complexity and challenge to international discussions of policing reform. All this raises more questions than answers about how existing knowledge can be transferred to contexts in the Global South.
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As noted in Chapter 1, even when research is translated, an evidence-based policing approach requires that foreign assistance donors and partner law enforcement agencies build receptivity to this knowledge, such that police officers and local leadership are amenable to it. Institutionalizing research and embedding it in practice then likely requires making fundamental adjustments to any police organization's systems and infrastructure of incentives, accountability, deployment, supervision, management, leadership, technology, and professional development to sustain an evidence-based approach over time.
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• Findings from available research regarding the role a militarized police plays in protecting the population are mixed and raise con cerns about the consequences for the ROL. Militarization in the Mexican police has been associated with greater homicidal vio lence and human rights violations, but further study is needed to see if these findings hold outside the Mexican context.
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The con sequences of such policies may improve police legitimacy and community confidence in the police by reducing hostility between police officers and citizens and elevating values of equal protection and respect both within and outside the police service. Recruitment policies can actively encourage the recruitment of underrepresented groups or remove structural obstacles to such recruitment.
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While there is much uncertainty on whether existing evidence can directly inform policing programs, existing evidence can be leveraged in capacity-building efforts to generate new knowledge if applied with intention and evaluated. There are also opportunities for assistance in amplifying lessons learned from research in international policing, including programs at the U.S.
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for the University of Queensland's Global Policing Database, with a view to creating free public online access to the original research reports. Some features of the registry could support daily scanning of scientific journals and other sources for new research reports that can help to compile the "raw" knowledge from individual studies and scientific peer reviews of each study in order to provide a quality control check on all studies included.
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Foreign assistance donors are in a position to help facilitate the development of a research framework to assess policing interventions in multiple contexts as well as police-researcher partnerships to expand available policing research and advance evidence-based policing. Local research capacity exists in many countries, even in areas of high violence and civil
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It has also noted major gaps in that reliability in the Global North as well as the Global South. RECOMMENDATION 5: To advance a policing research framework suitable for multiple countries, foreign assistance donors should raise awareness in host countries of the value of recording and reporting crime and harm metrics.
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This system, in order to support both preventive operations and reliable research, could include unique identifiers for places, victims, suspects, and systematic evidence of social network links in crime records across individuals. The aim of such crime analysis would be to understand where, when, and who commits crimes as a way to better understand safety concerns, with the ultimate purpose of better targeting of effective practices.
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The creation of transparent facts about crime and policing can be highly disruptive in any political context. Establishing equal protection by improving police recording practices is a major issue for the rule of law.
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