1/#APB Summer 2025 Spotlight, Day 21! In an active shooter event, do police rush in or wait for backup? Today’s APB brief studied 796 officers rating 324 scenarios. 🧵👇
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4/ 💡 Takeaway:
Public education works. Scaled effectively, it could improve trust, cooperation, & media coverage.

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4/ 📌 Bottom line:
Fixing mental health means fixing the organization.
Culture change > crisis response.
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@BennellCraig

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3/ 🔍 Results:
✅ Verbal individual interviews yielded the most detailed and verifiable info
✅ Sooner = better recall
✅ People remembered others they interacted with, valuable leads!
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3/ The result:
✔️ Multiple admissions
✔️ All statements admissible
✔️ Cited 14 times in judge’s ruling
Even without a murder weapon or confession, the interview was pivotal to the guilty verdict.
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2/ ✅ Key techniques:
• Acknowledge expressed feelings (don’t assume them)
• Adapt to suspect’s language
• Show polite curiosity, not judgments
• Reduce power imbalance through affiliation
#APBJournal #Empathy

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4/ If stations close:
✅ Create easy ways to report crimes online
✅ Use data to guide officer presence
✅ Rethink the role of stations: hubs for trust, not deterrence

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3/ 🔍 The results:
✔️ Significant ↓ in total property crimes
✔️ Significant ↓ in larceny-thefts
❌ Non-sig ↓ in burglaries & auto thefts (rare events)
⚠️ Residents likely became more alert + protective
#APBJournal #EvidenceBased

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🧠 Short, research-informed, practice-ready. That’s the APB model.
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