CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — For the Police Training Institute in Champaign, they have a routine cemented in an almost 70-year tradition. Now, they’re looking to make some changes. Since 1955, the Police ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In early 2014, months before the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and shortly after the Black Lives Matter movement got its start, Michael Schlosser, the ...

The University’s Police Training Institute began its annual 10-week public course, Citizen Police Academy, on April 4. The program is offered to all citizens residing in Champaign County. The ...

Police reform is on the national agenda in response to the choking death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in late May—and many other such incidents before and since. Police Training ...

Champaign IL – After five months of being closed the University of Illinois police training institute is back up and running. More than 40 recruits started classes last week, in the 12 week basic law ...

CHAMPAIGN — The “10 Shared Principles” intended to build trust between police and the communities they serve will be officially adopted by the University of Illinois Police Training Institute. PTI ...

U. of I. Police Training Institute director Michael Schlosser has spent more than a decade studying police interactions with minority communities and testing new approaches to improve the dynamic. The ...