Loren T. Atherley, PhD

Publications · Speaking

Publications
and speaking

Research on the measurement of police conduct, operational risk, and the records that document both.

A complete and current list is maintained on Google Scholar. Accepted manuscripts are posted here where the publisher's self-archiving policy permits.

Articles

Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

  • 2025Atherley, L. T. Risk managed demand: Operational risk management in police response to calls for service. Police Quarterly.
  • 2024Atherley, L. T. Intelligent risk management: Natural language processing real-time triage of police calls for service. Police Practice and Research, 1–19.
  • 2024James, L., James, S., & Atherley, L. Evaluating the effectiveness of a fatigue training intervention for the Seattle Police Department: Results from a randomized control trial. Journal of Experimental Criminology.
  • 2023James, L., James, S., & Atherley, L. T. The effects of shift-work schedules on the sleep, health, safety, and quality of life of police employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology.
  • 2022Atherley, L. T., Hickman, M. J., Parkin, W. S., & Helfgott, J. B. Measurement of potential over- and under-policing in communities. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 16(3), 443–461.
  • 2022Helfgott, J. B., Hickman, M. J., Strah, B. M., Atherley, L. T., Kosson, D. S., & Dorscher, E. The relationship between personality traits and the effectiveness of guardian law enforcement training.
  • 2021Boatright, R., Fisher, C., & Atherley, L. Lessons learned from a decade of reform and a season of protest: An enterprise risk management approach to officer wellness and early intervention. Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society, 22(2), 50–59.
  • 2020Helfgott, J. B., Strah, B. M., Atherley, L., & Neidhart, E. Evaluation of CIT components of guardian law enforcement training. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 1–20.
  • 2018Helfgott, J. B., Strah, B. M., Pollack, J., Atherley, L. T., & Vinson, J. A qualitative approach to understanding warrior versus guardian models of policing. Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology, 6(1).
  • 2015Hickman, M. J., Atherley, L. T., Lowery, P. G., & Alpert, G. P. Reliability of the force factor method in police use-of-force research. Police Quarterly.
  • 2014Atherley, L. T., & Hickman, M. J. Controlling use of force: Identifying police use of excessive force through analysis of administrative records. Policing, 8(2), 123–134.
  • 2014Hickman, M. J., Atherley, L. T., & Alpert, G. P. Using GIS to monitor and investigate police use of force: The spatial distribution of force factors. In Forensic GIS (pp. 173–199). Springer Netherlands.
  • 2013Atherley, L. T., & Hickman, M. J. Officer decertification and the national decertification index. Police Quarterly.
  • 2013Atherley, L. T. Profiling Ridgway: A retrospective analysis of criminal profiling through the Green River Killer investigation. In J. B. Helfgott (Ed.), Criminal Psychology. ABC-CLIO.
Reports

Reports and other writing

  • 2025James, L., James, S., & Atherley, L. The Seattle Police Fatigue Training Experiment. Applied Police Briefings, 2(2), 25–27.
  • 2020Atherley, L. T. Operationalizing research, or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the consent decree. Translational Criminology Magazine, Fall 2020.
  • 2015Helfgott, J. B., Atherley, L. T., Pollock, J., Vinson, J., Con-Johnson, C., Strah, B., Neidhart, E., Hickman, M. J., & Wood, N. Evaluation of the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission's Warriors to Guardians cultural shift and Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training. Report No. 1.
  • 2012Hickman, M. J., & Atherley, L. T. Police use of force in Seattle, January 2009 to March 2011. Northwest Justice Solutions.
Speaking

Invited panels, webinars and podcasts

  • 2025Artificial intelligence in modern policingSummit for Civilian Leaders in Law Enforcement, National Association of Professional Staff in Public Safety. Panel with Christian Quinn (moderator), Elizabeth M. Daitz, and Aakash Pattabi.
  • 2023Seattle Police Department’s evidence-based approach to equity, accountability and qualityJustice Clearinghouse webinar, hosted by the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing. With Heather Prince, Elise Kratzer, and Sean Wire.
  • 2021Policing during the COVID-19 pandemicAWS Public Sector Partner Awards. Panel appearance with James Slessor, Accenture.
  • 2025Reducing Crime, episode 82Podcast hosted by Professor Jerry Ratcliffe, Temple University. On the incremental implementation of evidence-based policing, building analytic capacity within an agency, the role of pracademics, and caution in applying advanced analytics to policing.
  • 2023Police smarter, not harder, especially nowContinuing education event, Crime and Justice Research Center, Seattle University. Panel with Captain James Britt, Seattle Police Department.
Conferences

Conference presentations

  • 2024XXXVIIIth International Congress on Law and Mental Health, International Academy of Law and Mental Health · Barcelona
  • 2024American Society of Evidence-Based Policing · Spokane, Washington
  • 2023American Society of Criminology · Atlanta, Georgia
  • 2023International Association of Chiefs of Police, Research Advisory Committee · San Diego
  • 2023California Sheriffs’ Association Annual Meeting · Ontario, California
  • 2023Alternative First Response Symposium, RTI International
  • 2021International Association of Chiefs of Police · New Orleans
  • 2019American Society of Criminology, 75th Annual Meeting · San Francisco
  • 2019XXXVIth International Congress on Law and Mental Health · Rome
  • 2018Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Annual Meeting · New Orleans
  • 2017XXXVth International Congress on Law and Mental Health · Prague
  • 2015County Prosecutors Association of the State of New Jersey · Atlantic City
  • 2015XXXIVth International Congress on Law and Mental Health · Vienna
  • 2013XXXIIIrd International Congress on Law and Mental Health · Amsterdam
  • 2010Western Society of Criminology · Honolulu
Also
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