This is a scene we recorded recently at a professional training session in Chicago.

We got to train the way we expect people to perform and sometimes when they don't perform in those use of force situations,

we kind of have to take a step back and go, well, why would they based on the PowerPoint that they just got?

This training was being held at the University of Chicago.

And if you start doing it in your district, you're going to make a difference and you're going to see either use the

force go down or the amount of force used. This is a brand new program called

the Policing Leadership Academy.

Now you may ask yourself police training at the University of Chicago.

This is a school known for its intense undergrad core curriculum, for its

economics department and business school, for its medical and law schools.

Why would they be teaching police officers?

Here's why.

You know, spending time looking at policing

and realizing these aren't high-performing organizations of the sort that you would

expect. That is Jens Ludwig. He is an economist at U Chicago.

He teaches in the Public Policy School,

and he also runs a research center called the Crime Lab.

It's not hard to go sit in a courtroom,

visited prison, or a probation office

to understand how they work.

But policing, really, real policing

is the most opaque part of this.

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