* The Mental Models construction creates a simple framework that can be easily retrieved from memory and applied to policing problems * Designed to accompany the lessons of the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing's curriculum to teach practitioners, researchers, and academics the necessary skills to identify, interpret, integrate, and produce research to inform police policies and practices * Equips readers with multiple models with which to deal with a problem rather than proposing a simplistic strategy

* The Mental Models construction creates a simple framework that can be easily retrieved from memory and applied to policing problems * Designed to accompany the lessons of the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing's curriculum to teach practitioners, researchers, and academics the necessary skills to identify, interpret, integrate, and produce research to inform police policies and practices * Equips readers with multiple models with which to deal with a problem rather than proposing a simplistic strategy