This PSO Perspective summarizes and extends lessons from our research, “Reframing the Police Staffing Challenge: A Systems Approach to Workforce Planning and Managing Workload Demand,” appearing in Vol. 18 of Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. It highlights the advantages and disadvantages of referring to the current police staffing situation as a crisis, and how, by instead considering it a dynamic challenge, a systems approach offers evidence-based guidance for addressing it.
“Crisis” Versus “Challenge”: Field Lessons for Building Police Workforces. Michigan State University Police Staffing Observatory, PSO Perspective, Vol. 1(1), 2024.
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