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                            Funding & Awards
 Developing a Common Metric for Evaluating Police Performance in Deadly Force Situations
Award Information
Awardee
              Washington State University Pullman
Award #
              2008-IJ-CX-0015
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Pullman, WA
Congressional District
              5
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2008
Total funding (to date)
              $282,551
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 08 ORE Policing and Public Safety Interventions
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2008, $282,551)
This project will develop a common metric for evaluating police performance in real or simulated deadly force encounters.  The ability to evaluate performance in these encounters is currently very limited and, as a consequence, so is our ability to understand the dynamics of police deadly force confrontations or to evaluate what kind of policies, practices and training work best.  The lack of available performance measures also makes it difficult to assess whether policies and procedures are being adhered to, or to hold people accountable for doing so. It also is extremely difficult for an organization to evaluate whether management practices and training are having the desired impact or identify effective ways to improve performance.
The researchers conducting the proposed study project that it will save lives and increase government efficiency by increasing the validity and precision of efficacy studies and cost/benefit analyses that, in turn, enable policy makers and trainers to improve practices.  The research team will use an expert judges scale development process to create a Deadly Force Scenario Performance Metric (DFSPM) with interval-level measurement scales, then pilot test the metric using rigorous experimental and quasi-experimental research designs.  It is anticipated that this metric will make it possible to compare officer performance across deadly force situations by 1) consistently measuring performance criteria that veteran police trainers and policy makers agree are most important, and 2) controlling for their relative difficulty. This capability will make it possible to compare the extent to which a management or training intervention affects the probability that officers will be able to achieve an optimal'or at least acceptable'outcome in a deadly force encounter. This capability is vital for evaluating organizational performance and developing effective deadly force training.
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Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      How Police Officers Perform in Encounters With the Public Measuring What Matters at the Individual Level
                  Results From Experimental Trials Testing Participant Responses to White, Hispanic and Black Suspects in High-Fidelity Deadly Force Judgment and Decision-Making Simulations
                  Final Report: Developing A Common Metric For Evaluating Police Performance In Deadly Force Situations




  
Grant-Funded Datasets
        
                      http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33141

  
Date Created: September 23, 2008
    
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