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Police Violence: Reducing the Harms of Policing Through Public …

(7 days ago) WEBAfter decades of activism led by marginalized communities, the American Public Health Association (APHA) recently declared police violence a public health issue in need of public health solutions. 1 One intervention to reduce the harms of policing is the use of trained, unarmed, nonpolice alternative response teams to respond to emergency …

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307107

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Policing Is a Public Health Issue: The Important Role of Health

(3 days ago) WEBLaw Enforcement Practices as a Public Health Issue. Policing practices have profound implications for death and illness, including direct and indirect physical and mental harm, and violent practices that disproportionately target and harm Black, Indigenous, and Latinx residents (DeVylder et al., 2020; Feldman et al., 2016; Tynes et al., 2020).Police …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8807347/

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Policing with a public health lens – Moving towards an …

(3 days ago) WEBRodney King, for example, was viciously beaten by police in 1991. In this case, the officers were indicted but not convicted, quickly …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0032258X211009577

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Law Enforcement With a Public Health Lens

(7 days ago) WEBThis summer, the department began a pilot program diverting behavioral health-related 911 calls from police to a 24-hour hotline staffed with clinicians. Additionally, if the calls involve immediate public safety issues such as weapons or threats, the first officers sent to the scene are specially trained in crisis intervention.

https://magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2021/law-enforcement-public-health-lens

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The role of police enforcement in public health emergencies

(3 days ago) WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic, which has lasted for nearly 3 years, has killed millions of people worldwide. Globally, during this public health emergency of international concern, the police have played an important role in maintaining social stability and preventing the crisis from further escalating during lockdowns.1 They also partnered with local centres for …

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00218-0/fulltext

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Policing and Public Health - International Association of Chiefs of …

(6 days ago) WEBPolicing and Public Health. The mission of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) is to advance the policing profession through advocacy, research, outreach, and education to provide for safer communities worldwide. In the modern era of policing, cross-disciplinary and collaborative partnerships, evidence-based policies and

https://www.theiacp.org/publichealth

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Policing Is a Public Health Issue: The Important Role of Health

(8 days ago) WEBHuman Impact Partners, whose mission is to transform the field of public health to center equity and build collective power with social justice movements, has developed a set of recommendations for how health departments can address police violence as a public health issue (Human Impact Partners, 2020). They include several …

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10901981211001010

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Police Violence: Reducing the Harms of Policing Through …

(7 days ago) WEBPolice violence is a public health issue in need of public health solutions. Reducing police contact through public health–informed alternative response programs separate from law enforcement agencies is one strategy to reduce police perpetration of physical, emotional, and sexual violence. Such programs may

https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/epdf/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307107

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Policing with a public health 2022, Vol. 95(3) 421–435 ª The …

(2 days ago) WEBtowards a public health issue. By drawing on some data from the University of Alberta Prison Project, we argue that looking at justice clients with a public health lens would significantly change the way police are trained and respond to incidents. We believe this would have monumental consequences for both justice clients and policing

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0032258X211009577

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Full article: The policing and public health interface: insights from

(6 days ago) WEBPolice violence has been framed as a public health issue (American Public Health Association Citation 2018). Given that ‘law is a ubiquitous treatment’ (Burris et al. Citation 2021 ), inquiries into the policing and public health interface are therefore strengthened by a lens that homes in on the direct and indirect effects of laws and law

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10439463.2021.1946058

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Public Health Strategy and the Police Powers of the State

(3 days ago) WEBHISTORICAL BACKGROUND. Police powers of the states are an expression of civil authority, i.e., the state's ability to control, regulate, or prohibit non-criminal behavior. 6 Health officials may use these powers to compel treatment, prohibit or direct a particular conduct, or detain and isolate in a quasi-criminal nature. 7 The courts have …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2569983/

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Addressing Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue

(6 days ago) WEBPrevalence, impacts, and inequities: Law enforcement violence is a critical public health issue. Consistent with domains of violence defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), law enforcement violence has been conceptualized to include physical, psychological, and sexual violence as well as neglect (i.e., failure to aid). [1–3] …

https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2019/01/29/law-enforcement-violence

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Building mental health into emergency responses

(5 days ago) WEBOther police departments delegate specific law enforcement officers to mental health calls and involve mental health professionals whenever necessary. One of the oldest programs in the United States is the CAHOOTS public safety system in Eugene, Oregon, started in 1989, a model that many police departments and cities have looked …

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2021/07/emergency-responses

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Broadening the public health approach to policing

(6 days ago) WEBTo these ten we added a further document published in 2023 by the Association for Police and Crime Commissioners and Public Health and Police Collaborative: ‘A guide to taking a public health approach for Police and Crime Commissioners and their officers’. We add this document because of the crucial role …

https://academic.oup.com/policing/article/doi/10.1093/police/paad064/7342190

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Public health and police: Building ethical and equitable opioid

(8 days ago) WEBPublic health and police collaborations integrate public health and law enforcement agencies and policy agendas. Implemented in jurisdictions nationwide, these collaborations take shape through cross-sector data sharing, policy, and programming . Despite the priority given to collaborations by policymakers, these initiatives remain …

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2118235118

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The role of police enforcement in public health emergencies

(4 days ago) WEBA public health and social protection position, either on an ad hoc or permanent basis, could be set up within the police system, to advise on the preparation, reaction, and recovery from public health emergencies and to improve communication between the police and CDCs. Finally, embedding public health training within the …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10063203/

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Why Police Departments Are Reluctant To Enforce Public Health …

(9 days ago) WEBAnd as he reports, police departments are often reluctant to enforce orders. MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: If you get arrested for not wearing a mask, actually, you're probably getting arrested for

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/17/947440069/why-police-departments-are-reluctant-to-enforce-public-health-orders

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APHA calls out police violence as a public health crisis

(4 days ago) WEBThe American Public Health Association denounces the use of violent methods by law enforcement against peaceful protesters. The current protests are the result of the American people rightfully demanding an end to the racial profiling by some police officers and a system of structured racism resulting in disproportionate harm to the …

https://www.apha.org/news-and-media/news-releases/apha-news-releases/2020/apha-calls-out-police-violence

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The role of police enforcement in public health emergencies

(5 days ago) WEBA public health and social protection position, either on an ad hoc or permanent basis, could be set up within the police system, to advise on the preparation, reaction, and recovery from public health emergencies and to improve communication between the police and CDCs. Finally, embedding public health training within the refresher training

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(23)00218-0.pdf

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Why Public Health Faces a Crisis Across the U.S. - The New York …

(8 days ago) WEBThe Times interviewed more than 140 local health officials, public health experts and lawmakers, reviewed new state laws, analyzed local government documents and sent a survey to every county

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/us/coronavirus-public-health.html

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From public safety to public health: Re-envisioning the goals and

(3 days ago) WEBIn limited ways, this work has begun. A body of research has conceptualized promising police linkages with the pursuit of public health and the opportunity for complementary work (van Dijk et al., 2019).The nascent development of diversion and deflection programs for people suffering substance use disorders reflects some growing …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8516139/

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The role of the police power in 21st century public health

(1 days ago) WEBThe police power is the right of the state to take coercive action against individuals for the benefit of society. The companion article by Potterat et al., "Invoking, monitoring, and relinquishing a public health power: the health hold order," is a classic use of the police power in the control of a communicable disease, yet one that is increasingly controversial.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10417024/

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