Andrew Brown
Carleton University
7 Papers
8 Citations
Andrew Brown is an academic researcher from Carleton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Recall. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 5 publications.
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Promising practices for de-escalation and use-of-force training in the police setting: a narrative review
Craig Bennell,Brittany Blaskovits,Bryce Jenkins,Tori Semple,Ariane-Jade Khanizadeh,Andrew Brown,Natalie J. Jones +6 more
- 27 May 2021
TL;DR: In this article, a review of existing research literature was conducted to identify practices that are likely to improve the quality of de-escalation and use-of-force training for police officers.
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A Reasonable Officer: Examining the Relationships Among Stress, Training, and Performance in a Highly Realistic Lethal Force Scenario
Simon Baldwin,Craig Bennell,Brittany Blaskovits,Andrew Brown,Bryce Jenkins,Christopher Lawrence,Heather McGale,Tori Semple,Judith P. Andersen +8 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors assessed the performance of 122 active-duty police officers during a realistic lethal force scenario to examine whether performance was affected by the officer's level of operational skills training, years of police service, and stress reactivity.
The thin blue line between cop and soldier: examining public perceptions of the militarized appearance of police
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how the characteristics of police uniforms and equipment influenced how the public perceived police officers and found that uniform and equipment characteristics influenced the perception of police officers.
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Examining the impact of grip strength and officer gender on shooting performance.
TL;DR: In this paper, the dominant hand grip strength (in lbs) of 86 male and 32 female officers were recorded prior to their participation in their agency mandated annual police pistol qualification (PPQ) and analyzed to explore how they related to one another.
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The Need for a Canadian Database of Police Use-of-Force Incidents
TL;DR: The use of force by police officers appears to be growing, fuelled by perceptions that the police use force too frequently, research showing that force is applied disproportionally by police as discussed by the authors.
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