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A Timeline of Key Events: Artificial Intelligence and Policing
How has artificial intelligence been used in law enforcement throughout time, and what are the ethical concerns? [read more…]
Actively manage your decision-making environments
Decision-making needs to be viewed as a critical organisational capability, and we need to develop our decision-making approaches at every level of policing organisations. [read more…]
Know Your Limits
There is now a huge literature on ‘biases and heuristics’: the mental shortcuts and cognition processes that most commonly lead decision-makers astray (while also saving valuable headspace for other work).[read more…]
Decision-Making Leadership: What Can We Learn From an Ex-FBI Chief?
Ex-FBI Chief Clarence Kelley knew that one of the secrets of good decision-making is to admit what you don’t know. What can we learn from him? [read more…]
Recognise When You Need to Think Fast, or Slow
A decision scientist encounters a knife-wielding attacker. Does she pause to carefully set out and weigh the importance of competing priorities, consult widely on the range of possible approaches [read more…]
Value Information – but Not for its Own Sake
Decision-makers all need information to choose wisely. Who can forget when the bomb squad blew up a suspicious Vauxhall Corsa outside Workington Police station only to find it was there because their colleagues [read more…]
Know Your Goals and Preferences
Was the 2003 Iraq War a great victory? Saddam Hussain was removed from power in less than a month, which led some to promptly declare the invasion a success. [read more…]
Police Professional Feature
WE’RE VERY PLEASED THAT OUR WORK HAS BEEN FEATURED IN POLICE PROFESSIONAL’S COVER STORY. IN A SPECIAL REPORT, YOU CAN READ SOME OF OUR INSIGHTS AND WHAT WE’VE ACHIEVED IN SOME OF OUR MOST RECENT WORK.[READ MORE…]