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687 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 8 (2020)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0687 and id is 1 raw text is: Evidence-Based Policing and Fatal Police Shootings: Promise, Problems, and Prospects By LAWRENCE W. SHERMAN The promise of evidence-based policing is to reduce harm with better research for targeting, testing, and tracking police actions. The problems of using evidence-based policing to reduce harm are found in the emotional dimensions of ethics and risk. These problems are most pronounced with fatal police shoot- ings, where the risks of injury to American police are often framed as a zero-sum choice in relation to the ethics of taking citizens' lives. Yet evidence-based polic- ing offers good prospects for reframing the debate over fatal police shootings, in ways that could reduce harm to both police and citizens. This volume offers substantial new evidence for initiatives at all levels of U.S. govern- ment that could help to save lives in police encounters with citizens. Putting that evidence to work remains the major challenge facing the American police. Keywords: evidence-based policing; fatal police shoot- ings; guns; race; normal accident theory; police recruitment; training and govern- ance; emergency medicine; mental health round 7:30 a.m. on a recent Monday in a large city, groups of young protesters placed food crates and other obstacles on main roads to block the rush hour traffic. When two traffic officers arrived, they ran at the protesters to move them up to the sidewalk. When one Lawrence W. Sherman is director of the Cambridge Centre for Evidence-Based Policing, where he serves as editor-in-chief of the Cambridge Journal of Evidence- Based Policing. He is also Wo on Professor of Criminology Emeritus at the University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology, where he is chair of the Cambridge Police Executive Program. Until 2019, he serredl as a distin- guished university professor at the University of Maryland. He was president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ao editor of The ANNALS from 2001 to 2005 and was elected a Thorsten Sellin Fellow of the Academy in 2009. He edited his first volume of The ANNALS in 1980, on Police and Violence. In 2017, he receivred Yale Universitys Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, in nrognition of his work as a pioneer of evidence-based practices. Correspondence: s434@camb.ac.uk DOI: 10.1177/0002716220902073 ANNALS, AAPSS, 687, January 2020 8

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