Research Catalog

Title

Evaluation of the New York City Police Department firearm training and firearm-discharge review process / Bernard D. Rostker ... [et. al.].

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Rand Center on Quality Policing.
• Rand Corporation.
• Rostker, Bernard.

Description

xxviii, 114 p. : col. ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

In January 2007, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly asked the RAND Corporation to examine the quality and completeness of the New York City Police Department's firearm-training program and identify potential improvements in it and in the police department's firearm-discharge review process. This monograph reports the observations, findings, and recommendations of that study.

Subject

• Firearms > Evaluation. > New York
• New York (N.Y.). Police Department > Evaluation
• Police shootings > New York > Evaluation
• Police training > New York > Evaluation

Note

• "MG-717."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.105-114).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Firearm-discharge policy and experience in New York City -- Training -- The firearm-discharge investigation and review process -- Analysis of factors associated with NYPD officers discharging their firearms -- The need for an improved less-than-lethal standoff weapon -- Other innovative technologies -- Reflexive shooting -- Summary of findings and recommendations.

ISBN

9780833044167 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008010909

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library