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Articles by: Gary Cordner

How might police education and training contribute to violence reduction?

19th February 2021

Professor Gary Cordner, Academic Director, Baltimore Police Department Academy

OPINION: Levels of violent crime across America saw an unprecedented increase in 2020; in this latest essay from the Violence Reduction Project, Professor Gary Cordner, former Maryland police chief and Academic Director of the Baltimore Police Department Police Academy, explains how better police education and training can contribute to reducing violence.

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Gary Cordner is Academic Director in the Police Academy/Education and Training Section of the Baltimore Police Department. Most recently he served as Chief Research Advisor for the National Institute of Justice LEADS Scholars Program. He was a CALEA Commissioner (Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies) for nine years and has been associated with the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing since its inception. He is Professor Emeritus at Eastern Kentucky University, where he served as Dean of the College of Justice & Safety. Gary was founding editor of Police Quarterly and is past editor of the American Journal of Police; author of Police Administration (10th edition); and co-author of Police & Society (8th edition). Earlier in his career he was a police officer and police chief in Maryland and obtained his PhD from Michigan State University.