The episode features a conversation with Dr. Obed Magny, a former Sacramento police officer and co-founder of the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing. He discusses emotional intelligence and its importance in policing, including how it can help officers de-escalate tense situations by reading the room and managing their own emotions. Magny shares how he would use emotional intelligence tactics like distracting arguing parties or engaging with them in unexpected ways to diffuse domestic disputes. The discussion highlights the lack of training on soft skills like emotional intelligence compared to technical policing skills, and how developing emotional intelligence can benefit police culture and community relations.
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The episode features a conversation with Dr. Obed Magny, a former Sacramento police officer and co-founder of the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing. He discusses emotional intelligence and its importance in policing, including how it can help officers de-escalate tense situations by reading the room and managing their own emotions. Magny shares how he would use emotional intelligence tactics like distracting arguing parties or engaging with them in unexpected ways to diffuse domestic disputes. The discussion highlights the lack of training on soft skills like emotional intelligence compared to technical policing skills, and how developing emotional intelligence can benefit police culture and community relations.
David Décary-Hétu is a professor at the University of Montreal and chair of the Darknet and Anonymity Research Centre. Décary-Hétu's research focuses on studying data from offenders who use anonymity technologies like the dark web, cryptocurrencies, and encryption. He reveals that the dark web was originally developed by the military to enable anonymous communication, and that while the dark web and other anonymity technologies pose challenges for law enforcement, they are not the unbreakable havens for crime that are sometimes portrayed in media. The dark web enables new types of crime, but repeated disruptions of dark web markets can lead to some offenders becoming discouraged and quitting.
Reducing Crime
The episode features a conversation with Dr. Obed Magny, a former Sacramento police officer and co-founder of the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing. He discusses emotional intelligence and its importance in policing, including how it can help officers de-escalate tense situations by reading the room and managing their own emotions. Magny shares how he would use emotional intelligence tactics like distracting arguing parties or engaging with them in unexpected ways to diffuse domestic disputes. The discussion highlights the lack of training on soft skills like emotional intelligence compared to technical policing skills, and how developing emotional intelligence can benefit police culture and community relations.
