Missouri

Police-Community Relations

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To Serve and Collect? Police Department Funding, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy
Like so many issues in public policy, one of the factors shaping the complex policing challenges facing America—and a potential lever to help address them—is simple and unsurprising. That factor is money.
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Mar 16, 2015
Newsweek
Brian A. Jackson

Police-Community Relations

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Progress After Ferguson? Good Ideas Need Good Implementation
President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing has done a great service by providing dozens of sound recommendations—good ideas that could help avoid another Ferguson. Now we need good implementation to go along with them.
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Mar 9, 2015
The RAND Blog
Nelson Lim, Greg Ridgeway
Police-Community Relations

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Data Key to Tackling Racial Profiling in Ferguson
Authorities in Ferguson would be wise to consider following Cincinnati's example in dealing with mistrust between police and citizens after the police shooting of a young black man. The city embarked on a thorough examination of racial profiling by its police force and took steps to deal with the perception that bias was influencing the way police officers performed their duties.
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Aug 21, 2014
Cincinnati Enquire
K. Jack Riley @K_Jack_Riley
Community Resilience

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Moore Must Be Ready for Psychological Aftermath
Ensuring the availability of needed mental health resources was critical in the immediate aftermath and recovery phase of the 2011 Joplin, Missouri tornado. Authorities in Oklahoma must ensure that such services are in place early so that Moore's residents can begin the long journey to recovery.
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May 31, 2013
CNN
Mahshid Abir

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There is no question that the Iraq War upended the balance of power in the Middle East, but the war has had a similarly profound effect on American politics as well. It left sizeable swaths of the American population on both the left and the right questioning not only whether the United States should conduct armed nation-building in the future, but to what degree, if any, the United States should be militarily involved abroad at all.

Raphael S. Cohen

Director, Strategy and Doctrine Program, RAND Project AIR FORCE

Source: The RAND Blog

The Iraq War had profound consequences for U.S.-Iran relations, as it turned Iraq into a site of indirect conflict between the United States and Iran. The political instability that accompanied the war, moreover, created an opening for Iran to increase its influence in Iraqi domestic politics and internal affairs.

Michelle Grisé

Policy Researcher

Source: The RAND Blog

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Missouri

To Serve and Collect? Police Department Funding, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy

Progress After Ferguson? Good Ideas Need Good Implementation

Data Key to Tackling Racial Profiling in Ferguson

Moore Must Be Ready for Psychological Aftermath

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