NPI believes that some of the best lessons and improvements in policing can come from critical incident or after-action reviews, particularly when such reviews are completed with independent experts in a manner that places emphasis on learning and improvement instead of responsibility or fault. Critical incident reviews have been completed on major, multi-jurisdictional incidents and individual agency incidents and activities.
NPI was the first national law enforcement organization to create and compile a library of after-action reviews from mass demonstration, mass violence, and other critical incidents. Included in the virtual library below are critical incident and after-action reviews and reports prepared by the NPI and other organizations and agencies, through governmental and private funding sources. While compiling this library, NPI conducts analyses to identify common findings, recommendations, promising practices, and lessons learned.
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Topic Areas: Policing Strategies & Operations, Police Administration & Organizations
NPI Mass Violence & Targeted Attack AARs
Recovering and Moving Forward: Lessons Learned and Recommendations Following the Shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
Topic Areas: Community Partnerships, Policing Strategies & Operations, Police Administration & Organizations
Regional Public Safety Communications in Broward County: A National Police Foundation Review of the Impact of Communications Systems and Processes on the Response to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting
Topic Areas: Innovations & Technology, Policing Strategies & Operations
Rescue, Response, and Resilience: A Critical Incident Review of the Orlando Public Safety Response to the Attack on the Pulse Nightclub
Topic Areas: Policing Strategies & Operations, Personnel & Staffing, Police Administration & Organizations
Final Report: Independent Review of Security Issues at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center
Topic Areas: Community Partnerships, Policing Strategies & Operations, Personnel & Staffing, Police Administration & Organizations
NPI Large-Scale Demonstration AARs
A Crisis of Trust: A National Policing Institute Report to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on the Los Angeles Police Department Response to First Amendment Assemblies and Protests Occurring May 27 – June 7, 2020
Topic Areas: Community Partnerships, Preventing Crime & Violence, Policing Strategies & Operations, Personnel & Staffing, Police Administration & Organizations
Research Evaluation of the City of Columbus’ Response to the 2020 Summer Protests
Topic Areas: Community Partnerships, Policing Strategies & Operations, Personnel & Staffing, Police Administration & Organizations
Preparing for and Responding to Mass Demonstrations and Counter-Demonstrations in Portland, Oregon
Topic Areas: Community Partnerships, Policing Strategies & Operations, Personnel & Staffing, Police Administration & Organizations
2017 Presidential Inauguration First Amendment Independent Law Enforcement Review
Topic Areas: Policing Strategies & Operations
