Police and Private Security Recruiting Challenges

03/21/22 • 29 min

Police and Private Security face enormous challenges in filling vacant positions. This episode outlines the problem and presents approaches that seem to be making getting better results. Special guest Drew Levine, Chief Operating Officer for the East Division of Allied US shares his experience and views on meeting these challenges. Allied is the largest private security company in the world.

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This is the first episode of the Community Safety Web. Co-hosts Darrel Stephens and Brian Stephens describe the newly created Policing, Security Technology and Private Security Research Policy Institute in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. The podcast talks about the goals of the Institute and some of the challenges facing the police and private security.

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Translational Criminology - Dr. Thomas Blomberg

In this episode we talk with Dr. Thomas Blomberg, Dean and Sheldon L. Messinger Professor of Criminology at the Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He has been a national leader in the field of criminology and a longtime advocate of translational criminology. In fact, the College’s brand “Research Brought to Life” that conveys a vision of striving to provide cutting edge research and teaching that ultimately contributes to improving society. In recent years he has begun to focus on the impact of politics on the adoption of evidence-based policy and practice.