Police Psychology Book Review: Towards the integration of police psychology techniques to combat juvenile delinquency in K-12 classrooms

Posted: December 19, 2018 in Books
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Police Psychology Book Review:  Rose, Gary. (2013) Towards the integration of police psychology techniques to combat juvenile delinquency in K-12 classrooms

by Paul Cech

 

Gary Rose revised his doctoral dissertation to create a book that will be of special interest to readers who are peace officers; teachers; police, school, and community psychologists, criminologists, school counselors, and many others.

The author begins with a brief reference to Newtown, Connecticut–December 12, 2012. He does so not to focus on school shootings, but to bring attention to a role of police officers could fulfill in schools. Instead of pushing for an armory in every school, Rose flips the idea around, he “…creates a framework for envisioning how trained police might best work hand in hand with teachers to forge better and more cohesive classroom management practice, and in so doing forge new community linkages, stronger schools and ultimately even more effective police forces (p.17).” Read the rest of this entry »

Police Psychology: Reproducibility

Posted: December 5, 2018 in Public Information Bureau
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Police Psychology:  Reproducibility

by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.  ABPP

 

So, my 11-year old daughter had to do a science project earlier this year and she decided because her mother was constantly saying that playing on the IPad was hurting her, she would test out whether IPad play really had an impact on her attention span.  So, we set it up with three alternate forms of a neurological test, the Trail Making Test, a connect the dots type of activity, (okay I helped a little), one before, one in the middle and one at the end.  There was an hour and a half of Minecraft in-between each of the trials.  We got her friends over and measured the change from trial to trial, with both time and number of errors as the variables.  The results….well, I’ll get to that.

We start training kids from an early age on the rigors of scientific method and how to make a scientific study.  We train them how to test a theory and how to make a hypothesis.  We train them that science requires experiments to answer questions and learn more about our world.  What I think we forget to train them in is that one study does not provide a definitive answer but only a suggestion.  The ignorance of the statement that it is only a suggestion is how we come up with a bunch of “Fake Science” being reported and guiding our way of life. Read the rest of this entry »

Police Psychology: Suicide Challenge

Posted: November 20, 2018 in Public Information Bureau
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Police Psychology:  Suicide Challenges

by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.  ABPP

 

It’s just an image on a App.  They used a Japanese doll artist’s rendition of a horror figure, a girl that supposedly killed herself and is apparently haunting those who live.  Ah, who knows.  What is more important is she contacts young persons on the internet and asks them to download her.   Then she gives them instructions over the course of their interactions trying to gain information about them, or their parents, or do a variety of dangerous self-harm tasks, she makes bullying threats, shames them, then talks them into killing themselves.  It’s called the “MOMO SUICIDE CHALLENGE.”  Mostly ‘tweens and young teenagers play with her online.  My 11-year old knows about it.  Her friends do.  Most parents do not.  Many cops do not, YET!

The Blue Whale Hoax started in Russia.  It was the same sort of thing, a person interrupts you from Facebook or some other App and asks you to join them by giving them your phone number or by connecting as friends.  Then they slowly give you directions, Blue Whale had over 50 posts fed to you once a day, ending in asking you to kill yourself.  People have tied this to suicides around the world, but no one has evidence of a direct causal element.  Asking pre-teen kids to kill themselves – does it get any sicker than this? Read the rest of this entry »

Police Psychology: Identity Politics

Posted: June 21, 2018 in Rank and Leadership
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Police Psychology:  Identity Politics

by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D, AABP

 

This is one of those terms that many people in the media throw around, but few in real life understand.  Let me describe it simply as far as what is going on in the media.

Basically, it is about the power of the voice.  The straight white American male has the least voice and sits as the baseline.  Now above the baseline are any persons who belong to a group that can claim they are victimized, or oppressed, or have effects of being victimized or oppressed in the past.  Basically, the white American female makes claim to being victimized because of sex and can be seen as above the American male.  The same is for people of color — Black, Hispanic, Indian, West Indian, etc.  Basically, they are rank ordered even further within this category and depending on how loud they get at the time.  Now if you are a member of more than one identity group you have even more power.  So, a Hispanic female has even more power in identity politics than a Hispanic male.  Now further, sexual orientation gives you a bigger voice in some political circles, so if you are a gay white male you have a larger voice in political identity that the straight white American male.  Religion plays a large role also.  The Muslim is probably first on the identity power list, but Jewish people have a good case because of the Holocaust.  If you are a gay Jewish female Hispanic you have a pretty powerful voice.  Although a Muslim Hispanic female transgender would even trump the voice of the Jewish gay.  Geez, why is this so complicated.  That’s the tongue-in-cheek approach to what is meant by identity politics.  Now let’s apply it to policing…. Read the rest of this entry »

First Responder: Almost ‘Chopped Liver’

Posted: May 24, 2018 in Mastering Change
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Almost ‘Chopped Liver’

by Gary A. Aumiller, PH.D.  ABPP

This story is told with the permission and review of my patient, John.

John is a retired cop, one year younger than I am.  He is pale white sometimes and other times he looks remarkably normal.  Sometimes he looks weak, sometimes like the man that plays golf a couple of times a week in retirement.  He is well-liked by most everyone that comes in contact with him.

“So why are you here?  I assume you didn’t come in for a golf lesson.”  I am not the greatest golfer.  I had known this man from police golf tournaments.

“I need a liver doc.  My brother and sister are both willing to give me part of their livers but the hospital in the city won’t do the operation because I failed a blood test.”  (A quarter of a liver from someone else will regenerate and handle the functionality of natural liver.  Live donors are the way to go in liver transplants these days). Read the rest of this entry »

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