Police Code of Silence in Times of Change

Ahmet Kule is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Social, Cultural, and Justice Studies at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. He received his Master’s Degree (2005) and Doctorate (2007) in Criminal Justice from the City University of New York. Before joining the UTC, he served at several institutions including the NATO School in Germany (senior instructor), Center of Excellence (NATO-Ankara), Turkish National Police, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Montclair State University. He primarily teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in terrorism, homeland security, cybercrime, policing, hate crimes, justice policies, and comparative criminal justice. Dr. Kule has conducted research in the areas of national security, terrorism, radicalization, policing, criminal interrogations, corrections, and unmanned aerial systems. His recent publications include: The effect of body-worn cameras on satisfaction and general perceptions of police: Findings from a quasi-randomized controlled trial (2020), Intersectionality of race, class, and gender in predicting police satisfaction (2019), Probation system in Turkey: An analysis of public policy formation using multiple streams framework (2019), Unmanned Aerial Systems: Past, Present and Future (2015-Book).

Maria (Maki) Haberfeld is a Professor of Police Science, at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.  She holds a PhD in Criminal Justice from City University of New York.  She served in the Israeli Defense Forces in a counter-terrorist unit and left the army at the rank of a Sergeant. Later she served in the Israel National Police and left the force at the rank of Lieutenant. She is one of the developers of Police Leadership Program for the NYPD sworn officers and the Academic Director of this program since its creation in 2001. In addition, she has created the Law Enforcement Leadership Institute for Police Chiefs in NY State and created an on-line Law Enforcement Leadership Certificate. She has trained police forces around the country and the world including, the Dominican Republic, Czech Republic, Poland, India, China, Cyprus, Turkey, Mongolia, and Taiwan, and conducted research on police integrity in over 70 police departments in the US and in 35 countries.  She was a Principal Investigator of the National Institute of Justice sponsored grant, studying Community Policing in Poland and a co-PI on a number of other grants on studying police integrity and on counter terrorism police responses post 9/11. Dr. Haberfeld also developed and trained some units of the US Military forces, including the U.S. Marines. She has published 21 academic books on policing and over 50 book chapters and journal articles in peer reviewed publications. She is also Series editor of Springer Briefs in Policing, where she recently co-edited 3 briefs on Community Policing and Technology (2018, 2019) and co-authored a brief on Use of Force Training (2020).