Driving a new era in public safety that is more impactful and community oriented.
The Public Safety Research Center (PSRC) is a resource for law enforcement, community groups, and elected officials to help usher in a new era in public safety.
The PSRC will provide white papers, practice guides, and discussion opportunities. The PSRC’s resources will draw on the experiences of criminal justice and community leaders and the best available research evidence to advance public safety.
The PSRC has developed a framework for reducing crime and building police legitimacy within communities: Precision Policing 2.0 (PP 2.0). PP 2.0 is based on real-world learning from the first generation of Precision Policing and adds new tenets that center on the importance of community, transparency and accountability, and officer performance, safety, and wellness while embracing the latest academic research, data and analysis, and technological innovations.
It is built on four core tenets:
Tenet 1: Evidence-Based Crime & Disorder Prevention
Precision Policing 2.0 (PP 2.0) embraces policing’s role in preventing crime and disorder. PP 2.0 encourages the use of evidence-based tactics that focus prevention efforts precisely on the small number of people and places that drive crime. PP 2.0 recognizes that the best crime and disorder tactics are developed and implemented with community partners, based on the best available research, data driven, and supported by innovative technology.
Tenet 2: Community Engagement & Protection
Precision Policing 2.0 (PP 2.0) embraces the idea that the community must be central in policing. PP 2.0 recognizes that the evidence-based crime & disorder prevention outlined in Tenet 1 is not possible without community trust and legitimacy. PP 2.0 encourages the development of a multi-level organizational strategy for community engagement that considers every police-citizen interaction, tailored plans for specific neighborhoods, and an agency - wide strategy for building trust and legitimacy.
Tenet 3: Transparency & Accountability
Precision Policing 2.0 (PP 2.0) embraces transparency and accountability in all aspects of policing. PP 2.0 recognizes that transparency and accountability are vital for building the community trust and legitimacy that make Tenet 1 and Tenet 2 possible. PP 2.0 encourages developing plans to make agency information publicly available, leveraging technology to increase transparency, creating mechanisms to hold police personnel accountable, and frequently reviewing police agencies to identify areas for improvement.
Tenet 4: Officer Performance, Safety, & Wellness
Precision Policing 2.0 (PP 2.0) embraces the importance of officer performance, safety, and wellness. PP 2.0 recognizes that officers must be trained and supported in order to perform at a high-level and drive a police agency into excellence. PP 2.0 encourages investing more resources in agency operations, officer training, and officer wellness and support programs to ensure officers are performing at optimal levels in all aspects of police work. The complexities of Tenet 1 and Tenet 2 require police agencies to recognize that cops count and police matter through resource allocation.
“With police and community relations at a pivotal point in today’s tumultuous social and political climate, it is imperative that we learn from the past, adopt new approaches and apply smart policing to be successful moving forward.”
— Lawrence Johnson Dean, University of Cincinnati’s of Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services, with the School of Information Technology (CECH)
“My hope is that this valuable forum will help kick start police and community anti-violence groups working together to make the positive impact on public safety we all want.”
— Wayne E. Rawlins, Project Manager for Miami-Dade County’s Anti-Violence Initiative
“We have since learned a great deal about how to extend the original principles of Precision Policing to address a new era of public safety. We will utilize new technologies, embrace transparency and accountability, champion officer wellness and better engage with the communities we serve.”
— William J. Bratton, advisory board member of PSRC, former Commissioner of both New York and Los Angeles Police Department.
Read short blogs from law enforcement leaders, community groups, elected officials, and academics who are adopting and advancing the next generation of public safety.
Contact
Cory P. Haberman PhD, Director