Pfaudler Lecture: Policing Reform

John Klofas, Ph.D. 

Professor, RIT Department of Criminal Justice 

Founder and director of the Center for Public Safety Initiatives, Klofas developed and leads an important collaboration between RIT's Department of Criminal Justice, the City of Rochester and criminal justice agencies of Greater Rochester including the Rochester Police Department and Monroe County Crime Lab. He and the team contribute to criminal justice strategy through research, policy analysis and evaluation. Its educational goals include training graduate and undergraduate students in strategic planning and policy analysis. His current areas of focus include community-level crime and justice issues including violence, management in criminal justice and strategies, and practices in policing. His most recent book collaboration is an examination of changes in criminal justice at the community level titled The New Criminal Justice. Klofas continues as a research partner with local criminal justice agencies, on the state's police training commission and on several national projects addressing community violence. In 2019, Dr. Klofas was honored as one of three inaugural inductees to the class of Distinguished Faculty which commemorates career excellence in teaching, scholarship, research, and service to the university and society.