Senior Lecturer Rayid Ghani Finds that Responding to Stressful Calls Can Predict Police Abuse of Power

Harris Public Policy Senior Lecturer Rayid Ghani was featured in Mother Jones, discussing how science can predict police shootings.

The article reports that "the team also confirmed something many experts and officers had long suspected but could never demonstrate: Officers subjected to concentrated bouts of on-the-job stress—handling multiple domestic-violence or suicide calls, or cases involving young children in danger, for example—were much more likely to have complaints lodged against them by community members."

Full coverage is available at Mother Jones.