June 24, 2025
I just read an article about police learning new policing techniques by practicing improvisation. Police learn skills that improv teaches, like thinking on your feet, reserving judgment, and fully listening.
In one exercise, they have to start a sentence with the last word their partner used. The point is that in order to do that, they have to listen ALL THE WAY to the end of the partner’s sentence.
Kelly Leonard, the leader, says that if her arm were a sentence, most people would stop listening at the elbow. The exercise forces people to focus listen all the way to the end of what the person is saying, which could give officers valuable information.
(I’d have to plead “Guilty as Charged” to the partial-listening scenario, too. I think I’ll try the improv technique myself.)
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