“Crisis” Versus “Challenge”: Field Lessons for Building Police Workforces. Michigan State University Police Staffing Observatory, PSO Perspective, Vol. 1(1), 2024.
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. Read More