My latest book Evidence-Based Policing: The Basics is designed as a simple guide for interested police officers and students, covering
What is evidence-based policing?
How do I access evidence and research about policing?
How do I create new research and learn what works?
A new website supports the book at evidencebasedpolicing.net. The site has additional information for every chapter, as well as links to further information, and even some videos that go into topics in more detail.
College instructors, university faculty, police academy instructors, and confirmed EBP practitioners can sign up to the site for free, and gain detailed access to more than 30 short (5-10 minute) videos that explain aspects of each chapter in more depth. Instructional faculty can also access banks of multiple choice questions for every chapter and video, PowerPoint slides for every chapter, and question banks for every Reducing Crime podcast episode. This requires approved site access obviously.
Signing up for more content
Signing up should be relatively simple. Click on the Instructors link at evidencebasedpolicing.net and then click Sign Up. Fill in the details and confirm by clicking Sign Up again.
The website should then send you a six digit code to confirm you are not a spammer; however... some universities and work email servers have very strict quarantine filters that block emails sent from code-verification@site-members.com. To be fair, it does look a bit like a spam site.
If you don't receive an email with a six digit confirmation number pretty much immediately, then your email host is probably blocking the incoming email. If so, you have two main options to resolve this.
Use a gmail account or equivalent to sign up. Gmail seems to have looser rules and appears to allow the website to send confirmatory emails. If you have added a professional title and organization, I will grant access to the videos. But if you want access to the question banks and instructional material, you may need to DM me on twitter or through the evidencebasedpolicing.net website to explain that you are an instructor wanting all the goodies.
Whitelist code-verification@site-members.com. Every email platform is of course different, but to do this in Outlook, right-click on any message in your message list and then select Junk > Junk E-mail Options... Click the tab 'Safe Senders' and then Add.... Paste code-verification@site-members.com into the box, and click OK a couple of times. Then try and sign up to the website again.
If you still have problems after trying these options... Email me or send me a DM and we can figure it out.