Police in America

Chapter 1

·         New information on police-citizen contacts

·         New information on body-worn cameras (BWCs)

·         New information on police-citizen cooperation (and lack thereof) as a challenge of policing

·         New “A Research Question” (media and citizens’ attitudes toward the police)

Chapter 2

·         New information on women and people of color police officers

·         New “Good Policing” (good policing changes over time)

·         New/revised “A Research Question” (current state of police research)

·         New information about changes in policing during the community problem-solving era

Chapter 3

·         New “Police Spotlight” (police officer salaries and consequences)

·         New “Good Policing” (police as warriors vs. guardians)

Chapter 4

·         New “Police Spotlight” (“Scoop and Run” in the Philadelphia PD, nontraditional police task)

·         New “Good Policing” (the need for new measures of police effectiveness)

·         New section on police responding to people in need, people with mental illness, crisis intervention teams)

·         New section on police use of Narcan

Chapter 5

·         New “Police Spotlight” (San Diego PD recruitment efforts)

·         New information on police salaries

·         New “Research Question” (how male and female college students perceive a police career)

·         New information about diversity of police officers

·         New “Good Policing” (Tulsa PD recruit training)

Chapter 6

·         New information on foot patrol

·         New “A Research Question” (CCTV and directed patrol)

·         New information on traffic stops

·         New information on stop, question, and frisk

Chapter 7

·         New “Police Spotlight” (ancestry DNA and the Golden State Killer)

·         Moved material on “proof” to Chapter 9

·         New “A Research Question” (secondary transfer of DNA)

·         New information on DNA and DNA analysis

·         New information as video as evidence

Chapter 8

·         New information on BWCs

·         New information/section on race and implicit bias

·         New information on de-policing and Ferguson Effect

·         New “A Research Question” (BWCs)

·         New “Good Policing” (BWCs)

Chapter 9

·         New discussion of proof and probable cause

·         Many revised discussions to shorten the chapter

·         New section on juveniles and the Miranda requirement

Chapter 10

·         New “Police Spotlight” (dealing with event trauma)

·         New “A Research Question” (shiftwork, fatigue, and gender)

·         New information on body armor

Chapter 11

·         New “Police Spotlight” (de-escalation)

·         New “Good Policing” (transparency in police use of force)

·         New information on police use of force

·         New “A Research Question” (but still suicide by cop)

·         New information on police use of robots and drones

·         New reorganized section on the control of police use of force

·         New information/sections on de-escalation, early intervention systems, BWCs

Chapter 12

·         New “Police Spotlight” (still Denver PD police complaint mediation program

·         New information on numerous chapter topics

·         New information on perceptions of police honesty and ethics

Chapter 13

·         Added many examples of community policing in various PDs

·         New information on law enforcement use of social media

·         New information on community policing vs. problem-oriented policing

·         New “A Research Question” (procedural justice)

·         Added many examples of problem-oriented policing (with a new diagram)

Chapter 14

·         New “Police Spotlight” (smart policing in Chicago)

·         New information on smart policing (its meaning changed since the 1e)

·         New information to clarify various strategies discussed in the chapter, including how these strategies may be controversial

·         New “Good Policing” (a problem-oriented approach to CompStat)

·         New “A Research Question” (crime analysis)

Chapter 15

·         Condensed discussion of terrorism

·         New “Research Spotlight” (far-right extremism)

·         New information about future of policing including militarization of the police

·         New “Good Policing” (BWCs and accountability)

·         New information on the future technologies of policing