By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fort Hays State University administration recently signed a preliminary agreement for its Department of Criminal Justice and University Police Department to explore the opportunity to establish a regional training center for the National De-escalation Training Center (NDTC) on the FHSU campus. The NDTC is located at Wayne State University in Detroit and facilitates innovation, research, and development of best practices in law enforcement de-escalation training. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Tamara\nLynn, chair and associate professor of Criminal Justice, learned of the NDTC\ndays following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lynn knew the\ndecisions made by Police Officer Derek Chauvin were wrong and that criminal\ncharges were a realistic response to his choices. She also knew his actions\nwere not indicative of all law enforcement officers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A 2016 report\nby the Dolan Consulting Group captures the prevalence of use-of-force utilizing\nFBI data. During 2014, there were approximately 385 million police-citizen\ncontacts, leading to about 11.2 million criminal arrests. During those arrests,\nofficers were assaulted almost 50,000 times while 990 deaths of citizens\noccurred. This means that deaths occurred in only 0.0003 percent of all police-citizen\ncontacts, in only 0.009 percent of all arrest situations, and in response to\njust over 2 percent that involved an assault on an officer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nestablishment of a regional training center will allow the Department of\nCriminal Justice to provide de-escalation training to officers from a\nmulti-state region, including Kansas, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and\nOklahoma. In addition to training de-escalation techniques to current law\nenforcement, Lynn hopes to make a statement and impression on criminal justice\nmajors attending FHSU. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFollowing Mr.\nFloyd\u2019s death, I thought about all the young men and women who graduated from\nour department and specifically those now working in law enforcement careers,\u201d\nLynn said. \u201cIn my 12 years at FHSU, hundreds of these former students have\nentered the profession to serve their respective communities.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lynn believes\ncreating a culture that emphasizes de-escalation will benefit not only those\ngoing into law enforcement but also students pursuing careers in corrections,\nprobation and parole, juvenile services, and other positions where situations\nmay escalate quickly. Lynn\u2019s objective is to ensure that current and future\nstudents are trained in de-escalation techniques to reduce use-of-force\nincidents and loss of life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The NDTC uses\nthe most popular and broadly accepted personality model in the world, DISC, to\nde-escalate situations. Traditional de-escalation training models use accepted\npractices such as allowing venting and active listening, as taught in verbal\njudo training. However, these approaches treat everyone as if they are the same\nusing \u201ca one-size-fits-all\u201d model. The NDTC model harnesses these traditional\napproaches yet augments them by identifying the subject\u2019s personality and\ncommunicating with them based upon their individual personality traits. This\ntraining teaches officers to identify personality quickly (sometimes in just\nseconds) so they can adjust their approach to maximize effective communication\nand interaction with a subject. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to\nFHSU Police Chief Ed Howell, \u201cThis de-escalation model expands the police\nofficers\u2019 tool kit to interact with the people they serve and defuse potential\nsituations that otherwise may escalate in the use of force. This model does not\ntake the place of other proven crisis intervention models. It seamlessly\nsupplements other proven models of intervention and de-escalation.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lynn and\nHowell will spend the next several weeks in discussion and planning with\nofficials from NDTC and university administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Howell stated:\n\u201cWith Fort Hays State University\u2019s expert faculty, challenging academic\nprograms, unmatched online learning capabilities, and mission to serve the\npeople of Western Kansas, I think we are a great fit for an NDTC regional\ntraining center.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For more information\nabout FHSU\u2019s Department of Criminal Justice and the University Police\nDepartment, visit www.fhsu.edu\/criminaljustice<\/a> and www.fhsu.edu\/university-police<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Fort Hays State University administration recently signed a preliminary agreement for its Department of Criminal Justice and University Police Department to explore… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55848,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55847\/revisions\/55848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}