external In the Media September 30, 2024 John DeCarlo, professor and director of the Master’s Program in Criminal Justice, and David Myers, professor of criminal justice, co-authored a paper published in the Journal of Criminal Justice that studied contagious fire, a situation in which officers may discharge their firearms in response to the stimulus of gunfire from fellow officers rather than based on an independent assessment of the threat. https://www.policechiefmagazine.org/courageous-leadership/ police-chief-magazine news-all news-in-the-media year-2024 month-september name-police-chief-magazine