The police staffing crisis : evidence-based approaches for building, balancing, and optimizing effective workforces

The purpose of this special issue, The Police Staffing Crisis: Evidence-Based Approaches for Building, Balancing and Optimizing Effective Workforces, is to help unpack this dynamic staffing challenge, examine many of its component parts, and offer lessons to advance the science and practice of police workforce planning. It features work by global, thought-leading researchers and practitioners, many of whom collaborate on research and outreach as part of the Michigan State University Police Staffing Observatory (https://cj.msu.edu/research-excellence/pso/pso-home.html). While each of the 15 contributions that comprise this session cover many angles, we organize them across four broad areas: systems integration, recruitment, retention, and allocation and resourcing.