What is the evidence-based policing matrix?

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What is the evidence-based policing matrix?

 

What is the evidence-based policing matrix? And how do you use the EBP matrix?

It is an online tool that has been developed to help police decision-makers make sense of the current

research that is out there. Hopefully you’ve seen in the ‘What is Evidence-Based Policing’ video what EBP is and why we need it to become more and more a part of policing, and you may also know that it is not always easy to make sense of all the research, or you might not even be able to access any academic works. Watch the ‘How to read academic research?’ video if it might be useful to you. In essence, the evidence-based policing matrix is there to provide you with a single location where relevant policing research on interventions that have been tested is stored, and it also tells you whether the interventions it lists are effective or not. And they are all of at least moderate robustness. Quite neat, isn’t it? And it’s openly available to anyone who’s interested, just go to www.PolicingMatrix.org. It was put together by Drs Cynthia Lum, and Christopher Koper of George Mason University, with the assistance of Dr Cody Telep. It is updated annually with new research that has come out and it tells you a number of things about each study, including whether it worked, didn’t work or had mixed results, or whether it actually had a negative effect, as in backfired.