Since the 2020 murder by Minneapolis police of George Floyd brought nationwide calls for change amid concerns that prevailing practices were not grounded in evidence and created harm, policing has been in turmoil. Implementation science (IS) involves integrating effective and evidence-based innovations into routine practice in fields like health care.
"Policing is ripe for new methods to examine how to change organizations and how to assess the adoption, implementation, and sustainability of evidence-driven reforms in police settings," says Brandon del Pozo, assistant professor of medicine and of health services, policy and practice at Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School, as well as a research scientist at Rhode Island Hospital, who led the study.
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