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Criminal Injustice returns with new episodes on January 7, 2020. Until then, we're reposting some of our favorite interviews. This episode originally appeared June 12, 2018.

We often hear that police work requires split-second responses to keep officers and the public safe. But this might be less true than we think. Can we build a better cop, by training them to slow things down?\xa0Emily Owens\xa0and her colleagues have produced\xa0new research\xa0that shows that, with a simple and inexpensive intervention, police officers get better outcomes with less use of force.