PERF Trending
"Trending" is PERF's weekly update to its members covering the latest news from PERF and the policing world. Past editions of Trending are available below.
2021
- February 27th: The Unsung Heroes of Policing
- February 20th: COVID Vaccines Are an Opportunity for Chiefs and Union Leaders to Work Together
- February 13th: On the Difficult Issue of Race, Three Police Leaders Reflect on their Early Experiences, Navigating Their Careers, and Lessons for Others
- February 6th: What’s going on with COVID vaccinations?
- January 30th: Not Losing Sight of an Alarming Increase in Gun Violence and Emerging Nationwide Responses
- January 23rd: Heeding the Call for Unity
- January 16th: The Heroic Cops Who Stepped Up on January 6
- January 9th: Trying to Make Sense of a Senseless Day
- January 2nd: A New Year, New Challenges for Policing
2020
- December 26th: Online Meetings: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- December 19th: The Lessons We’ve Learned About Policing and COVID
- December 12th: Reform-Minded Prosecutors and Police Chiefs: How Do We Find Common Ground?
- December 5th: What our survey of PERF members told us about policing, crime, and the next Presidential Administration
- November 28th: Police reform and good police work cannot be mutually exclusive
- November 21st: In spite of everything this year, we have much to be thankful for.
- November 14th: What I Think We Can Expect from the Biden Presidency
- November 7th: Alarming news of roving criminal gangs in Oakland
- October 31st: ICAT Is Looking Like a Game-Changer
- October 24th: Mass Demonstrations – The Never-Ending Struggle to Get It Right
- October 17th: Let’s Talk About the Costs of Not Fighting Crime
- October 10th: Unintended Consequences of Civilian Oversight of the Police
- October 3rd: Paying Tribute to the Heroes of the Summer of 2020
- September 26th: Who Wants to Apply for a Chief’s Job When Some Chiefs Are Treated So Badly?
- September 19th: Police Executives Need to Monday-Morning Quarterback Themselves Too
- September 12th: The Next Step in Monday-Morning Quarterbacking
- September 5th: PERF members tell me they agree that policing needs “Monday-morning quarterbacking”
- August 29th: How Do We Get Out of this Mess? Here’s A First Step
- August 22nd: Lessons From the Recent Standoff in Cedar Park, TX
- August 15th: A New Way of Looking at Mentoring
- August 8th: We’re in a Hypercharged Political Environment
- August 1st: COVID Has Demonstrated that Police Are Problem-Solvers
- July 25th: This Is a Defining Moment for Policing
- July 18th: When It Comes to Addressing Problems such as Homelessness, This Is What Police Reform Should Look Like
- July 11th: The Good Cop
- July 4th: Thank You
- June 27th: Here’s What We’re Planning for Tuesday’s Town Hall Meeting
- June 20th: PERF’s First Virtual Town Hall Meeting, Now Available on Video
- June 13th: How Do We Respond to “Defund the Police”?
- June 6th: Moving Forward from One of the Most Difficult Weeks in Policing
- May 30th: The Death of George Floyd, and Its Searing Effect on Policing
- May 23rd: Remembering 3 Giants in the Field of Policing Research
- May 16th: What We Know – and Don’t Know – About Crime During the Pandemic
- May 9th: The “Social Distancing Police” vs. Community Policing
- May 2nd: COVID-19 and Criminal Justice Reform, and a Tribute to Tony Narr
- April 25th: Looking forward to the return of in-person meetings
- April 18th: Lessons from the COVID crisis that may help soften the looming economic crisis
- April 11th: 9/11 and the COVID Crisis, As Seen by an Officer Who Survived Both
- April 4th: Jim Collins's "Stockdale Paradox" and supporting policing friends during the COVID-19 pandemic
- March 28th: The COVID-19 crisis and leadership lessons from General Stanley McCrystal
- March 21st: PERF's new COVID-19 resources and the Martinsburg, WV harm reduction program
- March 14th: PERF members on responding to the COVID-19 threat and previous PERF reports on responding to a pandemic
- March 7th: Washington State COVID-19 responses, upcoming first-line supervision webinar, and PERF staff attend an officer wellness symposium
- February 29th: Police chief turnover in Oakland, ICAT training in Hallandale Beach, FL, and emotional survival training in Baltimore
- February 22nd: Use of force in Volusia County, FL, body-worn camera research in Miami Beach, and reducing nonfatal shootings in Topeka, KS
- February 15th: Facial recognition, bail laws, and a new PERF report on less-lethal technologies
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