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A police officer’s mental health can be impacted by more than just the personal and physical trauma they experience on the street. Moral injuries are less tangible but similarly harmful events that can contribute to psychological and depressive disorders. Dr. Lorraine Smith-MacDonald explains moral injuries and how they can impact police officers.

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• Moral injuries are the psychological, emotional, or spiritual pain resulting from exposure to one or more events involving the transgression or violation of deeply held morals, ethics, or values.
• The research uncovered several “themes” to understand how officers experience moral injuries.
• While most themes related to street-level experiences, officers can experience moral injury from within the organization itself.

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Trauma-informed interview training can help street-level police officers and investigators when interviewing sexual assault victims. The training applies a victim-centered approach for understanding how trauma impacts memory and behavior. Dr. Bradly Campbell discusses his research that evaluates the effectiveness of Trauma-informed interview training.

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•Sexual assault myths can negatively impact an officer’s understanding of a victim’s interview response
•Trauma-informed interview training skills can be applied to other police-citizen interactions
•Trained actors may be a necessary approach for realistic police scenario-based training.

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Organizational Justice is a close relative or Procedural Justice. And if it’s important for officers to treat citizens in a procedurally just manner, it is also important for police supervisors to treat their officers in an organizationally just manner. Dr. Scott Wolfe explains the application of Organizational Justice in police agencies and how it can mediate the occupational stress of a police officer.

Main Topics

• Organizational Justice entails four components that are applied by police supervisors and leaders.
• An Organizationally Just work environment can reduce the officer’s belief that noble cause corruption is needed to succeed.
• Occupational stress is inevitable, and Organizational Justice can temper that stress.

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