{"id":386,"date":"2015-06-05T16:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T20:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/policepsychologyblog.com\/?p=386"},"modified":"2016-02-09T17:23:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T22:23:11","slug":"police-psychology-the-police-candidate-interpretive-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/policepsychologyblog.com\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Police Psychology | The Police Candidate Interpretive Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Police Candidate Interpretive Report<\/strong> <\/span><\/h1>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
I had one of the first cell phones for public consumption.\u00a0 It fit in a bag.\u00a0 The battery lasted minutes not hours, and it was essentially a car phone that could be moved around.\u00a0 But visions of Dick Tracy\u2019s watch and Agent 86\u2019s shoe danced in my head, and I walked around feeling real important when I pulled out my bag phone and made a call.\u00a0 How sweet those youthful delusions were!<\/span><\/p>\n
While I was running around looking for my Agent 99, Steven Jobs was getting fired from Apple.\u00a0 But Jobs had vision and timing.\u00a0 He knew when something was needed and he saw sort of saw into the future.\u00a0 When he was rehired, he was going to hire a Pepsi Executive for Apple and asked him \u201cdo you want to make sugared water the rest of your life or change the world.\u201d\u00a0 Jobs then designed a new operating system that became the basis for IPhone, IPods and yes, an IWatch that you could talk into, straight from the old Dick Tracy cartoons.\u00a0 My old fantasies are sort of dumb given they now exist.<\/span><\/p>\n
I sat with the Steven Jobs of Police Psychology in Orlando Florida at an IACP Police Psychologists happy hour.\u00a0 He wanted to get the American Psychological Association to recognize police psychology and tie police psychology practice into research.\u00a0 In my best \u201cPinky and the Brain\u201d imitation, I wanted to rule the world, or at least globalize the profession.\u00a0 Through the Society for Police and Criminal Psychology I started trying to define exactly what tasks were in the profession, what did police psychologists actually do?\u00a0 Across the country, my friend was starting the same task, so we combined efforts.\u00a0 He later spearheaded the work making police psychology recognized by the American Psychological Association.\u00a0 But his recent activity may be the most poignant for the practice of police psychology.<\/span><\/p>\n
He took an old standard test in police evaluations that was recently reconstructed, and took tons of data and put it into a computer-generated report on how police officers can be selected for police departments.\u00a0 Then he made it so the computer would generate not only statistical properties for the test, but also a list of references in the back tying the research to the employee behavior.\u00a0 \u00a0Literally, you could say I got this result and here are the references that support the denial of a job, or the calling of this person unfit for duty.\u00a0 Forensic evaluations are always supposed to be referenced but seldom are.\u00a0 Imagine going into the court and having all the references at your fingertips.\u00a0 And it is an entirely transparent process.<\/span><\/p>\n
Gone are the days when a psychologist looks at the scale and gets a feel for them being a good cop or not.\u00a0 Now we can directly tie scores on the MMPI-2 RF to police officer behavior.\u00a0 I remember Dr. Mike Aamodt\u2019s book<\/a> with all the meta-analyses saying basically none of the tests, except at the far reaches of the spectrum lead statistically to any decision.\u00a0 There is really a new world out there and someone has seen how to make it more viable.<\/span><\/p>\n
I don\u2019t do testing as a matter of course, so probably I have some things wrong, but the intent is correct.\u00a0 Dr. Dave Corey with excellent researcher Dr. Yossef Ben-Porath has really achieved his goal.\u00a0 He gave police psychology the recognition by the APA that it deserves and he is making the field which he works in, employee screening and assessment, highly attached to research. \u00a0Kudos to him and to Pearson<\/u><\/a> for publishing the Police Candidate Interpretive Report (PCIR)<\/a><\/u>.\u00a0 It\u2019s the IWatch of our profession.<\/span><\/p>\n
As for me, I am still trying to rule the world.\u00a0 Maybe if I write a blog\u2026.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D. ABPP<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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The Police Candidate Interpretive Report \u00a0 I had one of the first cell phones for public consumption.\u00a0 It fit in a bag.\u00a0 The battery lasted minutes not hours, and it was essentially a car phone that could be moved around.\u00a0 But visions of Dick Tracy\u2019s watch and Agent 86\u2019s shoe danced in my head, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17168877],"tags":[17168827,17168803,17168797],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tests","tag-fitness-for-duty","tag-police","tag-police-psychology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":554,"url":"http:\/\/policepsychologyblog.com\/?p=554","url_meta":{"origin":386,"position":0},"title":"Police Psychology | Locked Away in Your Cell","author":"Gary Aumiller","date":"August 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Police Psychology | Locked Away in Your Cell Police psychology has had a new enemy these days, and it's not typical ol' police stress. 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