Article on Virtual Reality and Community Policing

A recent article discusses how virtual reality can help police departments build relationships with their communities. The article, "Virtual Reality as an Empathy Building Community Policing Tool," appears in the Community-Policing Dispatch, a monthly e-newsletter of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. Virtual reality can provide members of the community with a real-life, immersive experience of an officer's interactions, and police officers can experience life as a community member in the city they serve. To read the article, go to https://cops.usdoj.gov/html/dispatch/03-2018/vr_as_empathy_building_tool.html.