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25 Police Q. 3 (2022)

handle is hein.journals/policqurt25 and id is 1 raw text is: Article Police Quarterly 2022, Vol. 25(l) 3-6 Busting Myths About To Article reuse guidelines: Evidence-Based sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/10986111211037655 Policing: Editorial journals.sagepub.com/home/px Introduction to the AGE Special Issue Natalie Todak' and Laura Huey2 Keywords Police, policing, evidence-based policing, methodology, research. Editorial Introduction Over twenty years ago, Lawrence Sherman cast a critical eye across the field of policing, describing what he considered to be a dismal state of affairs (Sherman, 1998). Police practices, programs, and policies, he argued, were often built on little more than anecdotal experiences, personal beliefs, and informal group consensus regarding what police ought to be doing about crime. Indeed, the field has historically engaged in a recurring cycle of adopting and quickly abandoning costly, untested initiatives, to make room for new, well-hyped, but equally baseless models. Drawing on an emerging paradigm within the dis- cipline of medicine, he crafted a piece for the Police Foundation's Ideas in American Policing lecture series in which he offered a prescription: evidence- based policing (EBP). EBP combines science with police expertise to produce knowledge of what works that is, which programs, policies, and practices are identified through Department of Criminal Justice, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States 2Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada Corresponding Author: Natalie Todak, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1201 University Boulevard, Birmingham, AL 35294-4562, United States. Email: ntod@uab.edu