The Integration Section of Forensic Psychological Evaluation Reports in Law Enforcement

Criminal Review Board of Forensic Psychological Evaluations in Relation to Appeal Hearings: A Culturally Responsive Police Accountability Paradigm

“…The standards for being a sworn weapons-carrying police officer are much higher than civilian and military positions. This position is a weapons carrying public service job that requires a rigorous forensic psychological screening, appeal process, selection, and training [43,44]. Police work has a political psychological component as well although no police officer should be allowed to wear their uniform to protest their grievances.…”

“…Once an individual becomes a police officer, the individual is not entitled to a lifetime of employment with no expectation of demonstrating cultural competence and continuously demonstrating psychological suitability for the position. The authority to use the power of arrest and deadly force in an effort to legally maintain public safety by default requires the ethnoracial trust from the community as well as full confidence that those duties are being properly discharged (i.e., culturally or ethnoracial credible accountability [44,45].…”