Traffic stops

De-escalation Training: What Works, Implementation Lessons, and Taking It to Scale; Plenary at the 2023 NIJ Research Conference

August 2023

Series

Police use of force, while infrequently used, is a tremendous concern to public safety in the United States when officers employ it excessively or inappropriately, causing injury or death and eroding public trust in law enforcement. This plenary from the 2023 NIJ Research Conference describes the Integrating, Communications, Assessment, and Tactics (ICAT) de-escalation training program developed by the Police Executive Research Forum to guide officers in defusing critical incidents.

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Building the Evidence Base

October 2022

What is evidence-based research? Why is it important to measure program activities and impacts and what are some strategies to do so? How can research be used to support engagement and empowerment for historically marginalized and underserved communities? Find answers in an recorded discussion moderated by Linda A. Seabrook, Senior Counsel for Racial Justice & Equity for OJP, with a panel of distinguished experts in the field.

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Statewide Law Enforcement Crime Research, Evaluation, and Analysis

15PNIJ-22-GK-00244-BRND

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$165,000

Gender Differences in Leniency Towards Police Misconduct (From Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Dilemmas of Contemporary Criminal Justice, P 323-338, 2004, Gorazd Mesko, et al., -- See NCJ-207973)

Date Published

September 2004

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ

Resource Sampler: Officer Traffic Safety

Date Published

February 2016

Publication Type

Training (Aid/Material), Technical Assistance, Instructional Material

Agencies

NIJ

Impact of Drivers' Race, Gender, and Age During Traffic Stops: Assessing Interaction Terms and the Social Conditioning Model

Date Published

April 2013

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ

Evaluation of traffic behavior in response to alternative police lighting

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Enhancing Procedural Justness of Encounters Through Substantiation (EPJETS): The Atlantic County Randomized Controlled Trial.

15PNIJ-21-GG-02718-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2021

$702,956

Balancing the Utility and Legality of Implementing Portable Mass Spectrometers Coupled With Ambient Ionization in Routine Law Enforcement Activities

Date Published

2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Autonomous Road Vehicles and Law Enforcement: Identifying High-Priority Needs for Law Enforcement Interactions With Autonomous Vehicles Within the Next Five Years

Date Published

2020

Series

NIJ Identifying the Highest Priority Criminal Justice Needs

Publication Type

Report (Technical Assistance), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description, Instructional Material (Programmed)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

State Police Traffic Stop Data Collection Procedures (Bureau of Justice Statistics)

Collected data from state law enforcement agencies with traffic patrol responsibility about their policies for recording race and ethnicity data for persons in traffic stops. Basic information was obtained on the circumstances under which demographic data were collected for traffic-related stops and whether this information was stored in an electronically accessible format. The data collection was not designed to obtain available agency databases containing traffic-stop...