The rise and demise of ‘police science’

Why top US universities have law schools but not police schools [Click here to view this message in your web-browser](. Edition: US 1 May 2018 [[The Conversation]Academic rigor, journalistic flair]( Editor's note If you want to be a lawyer, you go to law school. If you want to be a cop, there’s not an obvious place in higher education to pursue your dream career. To understand why that is, a police reform scholar at the University of California, Davis, Nidia Bañuelos, dug into archival material on what was once the Berkeley School of Criminology – “one of the most ambitious projects in police education ever undertaken in the U.S.” The [reasons behind its demise]( may give us clues on how to improve police education – and policing – today. Nike Inc.’s locker room culture is among the latest to encounter the disinfecting sunshine of the #MeToo era. 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