Policing In America Podcast
Welcome to Policing in America – a podcast about race and policing: the good, the bad and the ugly. The goal? To have, at times, uncomfortable conversations to spark positive change. Your host is currently the Officer in Charge of a unit that creates, delivers and maintains police training in the largest urban police department on the West Coast of America: Sergeant Tom Datro.
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Data-Driven Policing (Pros and Cons)
Join Sgt. Tom Datro and his guest Charles Fan Lehman, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute as they discuss data in policing. The M…
Accountability in Policing: Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio example?
Lydia Guzman is the Chairwomen of the Phoenix PD Hispanic Advisory Board
Equal Standard Movie Producer: “everyone has different agendas” in po…
Taheim Bryan writer and producer of movie Equal Standard
LAPD Officer Deon Joseph's Open Letter to Lebron James
Los Angeles police officer says the NBA start hasn't responded
Recent Episodes
Policing's False Narrative - and the deadly consequences
Nov. 4, 2022
Peter Kirsanow is a distinguished US Commission on Civil Rights member and a practicing attorney. Mr. Kirsanow believes data should drive public policy, not emotions, not feelings, and certainly not the media.
Bias Policing with Jessica Nordell
Sept. 22, 2022
Sgt Tom speaks with Jessica Nordell about the social and cognitive phenomena of bias. Can police departments foster trust and legitimacy with those they are sworn to protect and serve through a better understanding of bias…
Can We Improve Police Training by Modeling the Marines
Sept. 1, 2022
Policing across the US seems to embrace a "para-military" framework. However, policing seems to simply assume the hierarchy and rank structures but appears to be failing in the training and education of their officers. Dr …
Broken Windows Policing - Is it time to go back?
July 6, 2022
Professor Peter Moskos, a Princeton and Harvard-trained sociologist, author, and one-time Baltimore cop teaches us about Broken Windows policing; why it's good, why it went awry and is it time to re-visit this crime reductio…
Chronic Sleep Deprivation and Law Enforcement; A Public Safety Crisis
May 3, 2022
In this episode, I speak with Professor Lois James from the Washington State University School of Nursing. Professor James has focused a large part of her scholarship on the intersection of sleep deprivation, bias, and poli…
Professor Dorothy Schulz talks about the Wandering Cop . .
April 3, 2022
How a small number of problem officers create large problems for the profession
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About the Host
Sgt. Tom Datro
Host