Dr. Lorie Fridell
Associate Professor, College of Behavioural and Community Sciences | University of South Florida
Tampa, FL, UNITED STATES
A national expert on racially biased policing.
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Biography
Dr. Lorie Fridell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology. Prior to joining USF in August of 2005, she served for six years as the Director of Research at the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Fridell has over 20 years of experience conducting research on law enforcement. Her primary research areas are police use of force and violence against police. She has authored, co-authored or edited books entitled: Police Use of Force: Official Reports, Citizen Complaints and Legal Consequences; Police Vehicles and Firearms: Instruments of Deadly Force; Chief Concerns: Exploring the Challenges of Police Use of Force; Community Policing: Past, Present and Future. Recent articles and chapters on these and other research topics include "Use-of-Force Policy, Policy Enforcement and Training," "The Impact of Agency Context, Policies and Practices on Violence against Police," "Deadly Force Policy and Practice: The Forces of Change," and "Attracting Females and Racial/Ethnic Minorities to Law Enforcement."
Dr. Fridell is a national expert on racial profiling, or what she calls "racially biased policing." She speaks nationally on this topic and provides consultation and command-level training to law enforcement agencies. Publications on this topic include two books: Racially Biased Policing: A Principled Response and By the Numbers: A Guide for Analyzing Race Data from Vehicle Stops (and the companion guide, Understanding Race Data from Vehicle Stops: A Stakeholder's Guide). A recent chapter is and "Racially Biased Policing: The Law Enforcement Response to the Implicit Black-Crime Association."
Dr. Fridell is a Co-PI on the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) funded National Police Research Platform, which is a multi-component, multi-method pilot project collecting data on law enforcement personnel and agencies at 100 sites around the United States.
Dr. Fridell has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on projects funded at close to $8 million; she has brought in close to $1.5 million in grants/contracts to USF. She taught previously at the University of Nebraska and Florida State University. She has received five university-level teaching awards.
Industry Expertise (6)
Public Policy
Law Enforcement
Training and Development
Research
Education/Learning
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Areas of Expertise (8)
Criminology
Police
Research Design
Criminal Justice
Qualitative Research
Data Analysis
Leadership Development
Psychology
Accomplishments (4)
Alumna of the Year (professional)
2004-01-01
Awarded by Linfield College.
University Teaching Award (professional)
1997-01-01
Awarded by Florida State University.
Teaching Incentive Program Award (professional)
1997-01-01
Awarded by Florida State University
University Excellence in Teaching Award (professional)
1991-01-01
Awarded by Florida State University.
Education (3)
University of California, Irvine: Ph.D., Social Ecology 1987
Dissertation Title: "Diversion Programs for Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse Offenders: The Clients, the Referral Decision and the Resumption of Prosecution".
University of California, Irvine: M.A., Social Ecology 1983
Thesis Title: "Community Attitudes Towards police Use of Deadly Research".
Linfield College: B.A., Psychology 1980
Affiliations (6)
- American Institute for Research : Member, Technical Advisory Team
- International Association of Chiefs of Police : Member, Research Committee
- Policing: An International Journal on Police Strategies and Management : Journal Co-Editor
- Criminology : Journal Reviewer
- Journal of Criminal Justice : Journal Reviewer
- Justice Quarterly : Journal Reviewer
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Media Appearances (5)
B.C. police work consciously to temper implicit bias
Battle Creek Enquirer online
2014-12-13
Lorie Fridell, associate professor of criminology at the University of South Florida and a previous director of research at the Police Executive Research Forum, said there is a distinct difference between explicit bias and implicit bias. She said while explicit bias is conscious, deliberate and exposes hostility, implicit bias needs no negativity or hostility toward a group of people. Rather, it affects perceptions and behaviors...
Baltimore police training designed to eliminate racial bias
The Baltimore Sun online
2014-11-26
Since April, more than 200 officers have been trained in "fair and Impartial policing," in the hope that it will improve relations with residents. Those efforts will expand in January as Lorie Fridell, an associate criminology professor at the University of South Florida, returns to put police leaders — and some community members — through the training...
Four Perspectives on Police and Racial Bias
BloombergBusinessweek online
2014-12-11
A racist is a person with explicit bias. But in modern society prejudice is more likely to manifest as implicit bias, which produces discriminatory behavior even in individuals who at the conscious level reject prejudice. What we haven’t been doing is talking to officers about how they might be impacted by implicit biases...
Kansas law enforcement looking at 'fair and impartial' policing
Lawrence Journal World online
2014-12-10
Pavey said the training center and the Kansas African American Affairs Commission within the Governor’s office partnered last year to begin educating state law enforcement and communities about the “fair and impartial policing” concept, as outline by expert Lorie Fridell...
Local law officials defend use of deadly force
TBO The Tampa Bay Tribune online
2014-12-07
Lorie Fridell, an associate professor at the University of South Florida and an expert in lethal force, said racial and ethnic factors play a role in use of force and a community’s reaction to it. Residents’ perceptions of their law enforcement officials, for better or worse, matter. “Use of force has been a long-term issue, challenging the relationship between the police and particularly those communities who perceive that force is used excessively against them,” Fridell said...
Event Appearances (5)
Attitudes Toward Misbehaviour and Perceptions of Agency Accountability: Results from the National Police Research Platform
Annual Conference of the American Society of Criminology Chicago, IL.
2012-11-01
Analyzing Organizational Commitment as a Mediatory Between Procedural Justice and Burnout and Cynicism in Police Supervisors
Annual Conference of the American Society of Criminology Chicago, IL.
2012-11-01
Community Cynicism Trajectories in New Officers
Annual Conference of the American Society of Criminology Chicago, IL.
2012-11-01
Multi-Level Analysis of Police Use of Force: The Impact of Incident Characteristics, Supervision, and Neighbourhood Context
Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology New York, NY.
2011-11-01
Analyzing the Relationship between Procedural Justice and the Desire for Career Advancement among Police Sergeants
Annual Conference of the American Criminal Justice Society New York, NY.
2014-03-01
Articles (5)
Racially biased policing: A principled response
Police Executive Research Forum (PERF)
2001-01-01
Researchers conducted a national survey of more than 1,000 agency executives, reviewed the materials of more than 250 agencies, spoke with citizens and practitioners in a series of focus groups held around the country, conducted a literature review, and ...
Death on patrol: Killings of American law enforcement officers
Critical Issues in Policing: Contemporary Readings
1997-01-01
According to UCR data, the number of law enforcement officers who were feloniously killed declined from a high of 134 in 1973 to below 100 per year in the early 1980's; the number fell again in the late 1980's to the present rate of between 65 and 70 ...
Police Use of Force: Official Reports, Citizen Complaints, and Legal Consequences
Police Foundation
1993-01-01
A total of 1,111 law enforcement agencies completed an extensive questionnaire designed to address issues pertaining to police use of force. The information gathered is presented in this document in the following chapters: (1) What is Known, What Needs to be Learned; (2) Methods; (3) Survey Results; and (4) Summary...
Police officer decisionmaking in potentially violent confrontations
Journal of Criminal Justice
1992-01-01
Instead of conceptualizing police use of deadly force incidents as single “shoot/don't shoot” decisions, Binder and Scharf (1980) and Scharf and Binder (1983) have characterized police-citizen encounters in terms of a series of events and decisions ...
Lethal force as a police response
Criminal Justice Abstracts
1984-01-01
A 1982 study by Matulia et al., along with other data sources, shows a decrease in police shootings over the last 15 or 20 years, although complaints about police shootings have recently increased. Five comprehensive studies of police shootings (Milton, Fyfe, ...
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