Roundtable: Training the Police for 21st Century Policing

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

How do we train our police officers to police in the 21st century? Law enforcement training academies are utilizing terminal objectives to design their training curriculum that are over 25 years old. If we are going to equip our officers with the best equipment possible to police in the 21st century, shouldn't that equipment also include a training curriculum that is suitable for policing in the 21st century? If so, how do we determine what this new training curriculum should be and what it should contain?

Sub Unit

• Area XIII: Roundtable Sessions

Division of Special Interest

• Divisions of Special Interest / Division of Policing

Chair

• Hamin Shabazz, Sul Ross State University

Discussants

• Milland Reed, Stevenson University

• Katie Swope, Stevenson University

• Evaristus Obinyan, Albany State University

• Ihekwoaba Declan Onwudiwe, Texas Southern University at Houston, TX

• Charles Ochie, Albany State University, Georgia