Lorie Fridell
Lorie Fridell
Graduate Director
Contact
Office: SOC 338
Phone: 813/974-6862
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Bio
Dr. Lorie Fridell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida (USF). 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). Dr. Fridell has 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; and 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 is first author of Racially Biased Policing: A Principled Response and sole author of By the Numbers: A Guide for Analyzing Race Data From Vehicle Stop (and the companion guide, Understanding Race Data From Vehicle Stops: A Stakeholder’s Guide). Her most recently published chapter is entitled, “Racially Biased Policing: The Law Enforcement Response to the Implicit Black-Crime Association.” Dr. Fridell speaks nationally, trains command staff, and consults with agencies on this issue. She trains law enforcement command staff in what she calls a “comprehensive program to produce fair and impartial policing” and is engaged in an 2-year project with the San Francisco P.D. and a police-community advisory board to implement a comprehensive program in that city. She has consulted with a number of other agencies/entities including the LAPD, Kansas Racial Profiling Task Force, Toronto Police Services, Austin PD, Massachusetts Chiefs Association, Seattle PD, Institute on Race and Justice, and Rand Inc. With funding from the US Department of Justice and experts from across the nation, she is developing model training programs for (1) academy recruits and (2) first-line supervisors. These curriculums are based on the social psychology of human biases. Dr. Fridell testified before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the topic of racial profiling.
Dr. Fridell has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on projects funded at over $6 million. She has taught at the University of Nebraska and Florida State University. She has received five university-level teaching awards.
Research
Law Enforcement issues including use of force, violence against police, and racial profiling