National De-Escalation Training Center: Tools for law enforcement to reduce unnecessary use of force

Authors

Morgan Steele, Fort Hays State UniversityFollow
Tamara Lynn, Fort Hays State UniversityFollow

Classification

Empirical Faculty/Staff

Abstract

Reducing uses of force is one of the most significant challenges to policymakers and practitioners Of the various methods being proposed, de escalation training represents the option most likely to do so This article reviews the literature concerning uses of force and describes the National De Escalation Training Center ( a decentralized research and training organization recently funded by the Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services With the popular support for de escalation growing in the public consensus, the NDTC answers the call for that training to be evidence based, with the national infrastructure to distribute and evaluate it

Department/Program

Criminal Justice

Submission Type

in-person poster

DOI

10.58809/SDSQ1296

Date

4-20-2022

Rights

Copyright the Author(s)

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Recommended Citation

Steele, Morgan and Lynn, Tamara (2022) "National De-Escalation Training Center: Tools for law enforcement to reduce unnecessary use of force," SACAD: John Heinrichs Scholarly and Creative Activity Days: Vol. 2022, Article 2.
DOI: 10.58809/SDSQ1296
Available at: https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sacad/vol2022/iss2022/2