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Mental Health Conditions & Developmental Disabilities
Developmental Disabilities: What Law Enforcement Officers Need to Know
Using BWC Footage to Promote Officer Safety: Examples from the Field
The National Law Enforcement Knowledge Lab
Improving Outcomes for People in Contact with the Criminal Justice System Who Have Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities
Optimizing Body-Worn Cameras to Enhance Common Police Practices and Field Investigations
Leveraging Body-Worn Camera Footage to Examine Officer-Community Member Encounters
Managing Digital Evidence from Body-Worn Cameras: Case Studies in Seven Sites
An Examination of Body-Worn Camera Digital Evidence Management (DEM) Strategies
Public Safety and Public Health Partnerships to Address Stimulants: Virtual Workshop Report
How Law Enforcement Agencies and Officers Can Work Proactively With Health-Adjacent Programming – Part 1: Naloxone
Body-Worn Camera Training and Technical Assistance Vendor Acquisition Guide
Opening Doors, Returning Home: How Public Housing Authorities Across the Country Are Expanding Access for People with Conviction Histories
Police accounts of critical incidents: a descriptive and empirical assessment
Evaluation of Ongoing Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training for Law Enforcement Using the ECHO Model
Designed to Do Good: Key Findings on the Development and Operation of First Responder Deflection Programs
Police accounts of critical incidents: a descriptive and empirical assessment
Implementation and initial analysis of Cardiff Model data collection procedures in a level I trauma adult emergency department
Victim-Survivors' Prioritization of Reasons for Non-Reporting Adult Sexual Assaults to Law Enforcement
Getting Proactive with Police Proactivity: The Benefits of Computer-aided Dispatch for Directing Police Resources to Areas of Need
Using social network analysis to examine gun violence
Evaluation of Ongoing Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training for Law Enforcement Using the ECHO Model
Implementation and evaluation of a juvenile mental health training for law enforcement in a medium-sized jurisdiction
A Primer for Death in Custody Reporting Act (DCRA) and Related Program Data Requirements
Embedding Clinicians in the Criminal Justice System
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