Professors David Weisburd, Cynthia Lum and Stephen Mastrofski from the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at Mason have been selected to serve on the "Committee on Proactive Policing – Effects on Crime, Communities, and Civil Liberties," convened by the Committee on Law and Justice at the National Academy of Sciences.
The committee will review the evidence on the effects of different forms of proactive policing on crime and disorder, discriminatory application, legality, and community reaction and receptiveness.
The first meeting of the committee is open to the public and will be held November 12-13, 2015 in Washington DC. Additional information about the committee's charge and registration for the meeting is available here.
November 09, 2015
