In this episode, PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler speaks with Tucson Police Chief Chad Kasmar.Joining the Tucson Police Department in 2000, Kasmar was sworn in as the city's police chief in December 2021. Chief Kasmar received PERF's...

In this episode, PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler speaks with Al Baker, who currently serves as the director of communications for the New York State Unified Court System. The son of a lieutenant in the NYPD Emergency Service U...

The PERF-HBCU Internship Program podcast series wraps up with three students who spent their summers inside police departments in the Midwest.We hear from:Thomas Barnes, Morehouse College (GA), Chicago Police Department (IL)Ayia...

In the second episode in this series on the PERF-HBCU Internship Program, PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler speaks with two students from Harris-Stowe University in Missouri. Despite their shared alma mater, these students had diverse experi...

In the first episode of a three-part series, we hear from participants of the PERF-HBCU Internship Program. This episode features interviews between PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler and three students from Historically Black Co...

Danielle Outlaw has held police leadership roles in three very challenging cities. She spent the first 20 years of her career with the Oakland Police Department, rising to serve as deputy chief from 2013-2017. From 2017-2019, she w...

Pioneering uses of artificial intelligence have begun to find their way into a broad range of professions – including policing. The Los Angeles Police Department recently announced a new research study that will use AI to analyze LAPD officers’...

In this episode of PERFcast, PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler speaks with former Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison. Harrison discusses his early days in the New Orleans Police Department leading up to his appointment as superin...

In this episode of PERFcast, PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler talks with Phoenix Police Chief Michael Sullivan about the challenges his department faces during the city's historic heatwave.

In part two, Chuck talks with current Chief Gabe Rodriguez, a Camden native, and Camden community members about their experiences in the city before and after the reform.Speakers (6) in order of appearance: Dustin Water...

In part one, PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler speaks with former Chief Scott Thomson, who was the first chief of the new department, about the state of crime and community trust in the beginning before the reform and the actions taken to re...

In this episode, youth leaders and police share successful strategies for engaging and establishing trust with youth to improve overall community relationships with police, as well as reduce crime. Speakers (12) in order of appeara...

Central to the conversation about public trust in police are the historical and current incidents that have exacerbated mistrust. In part two of this episode, community members and police leaders share how discussing these events can narrow the...

In this two-part episode, police, academics, and community members share the challenges they have experienced in building trust and strategies to overcome them. Part one explains why conventional surveys and community engagement programs are un...

In this episode, police and community members discuss how they define trust. Police leaders then share how they have integrated these trust building principles into their department’s operations and how they can measure community needs and sent...

In this episode, PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler interviews the co-chairs of the White House Task Force on 21st Century Policing - former Commissioner Chuck Ramsey (Philadelphia Police Department) and Laurie Robinson (Professor Emerita at ...

In this episode, police leaders and community members will establish the foundation for the rest of the series by discussing how police agencies can differentiate themselves from the national narrative by building trust with the local community...

PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler speaks with NYPD  Communications Officer and former detective Edward Conlon. Learn about "Talk to Me," the podcast series that details the birth of hostage negotiations and how the NYPD pioneered key te...