| Summary: | While the proximate cause of any accident is usually someones immediate action or omission (failure to act)there is often a trail of underlying latent conditions that facilitated their error: the person has, in effect, been unwittingly set up for failure by the organization.� This Brief explores an accident in policing, as a framework for examining existing police practices.�� Learning from Error in Policing describes a case of wrongful arrest from the perspective of organizational accident theory, which suggests a single unsafe actin this case a wrongful arrestis facilitated by several underlying latent conditions that triggered the event and failed to stop the harm once in motion. ��The analysis demonstrates that the risk of errors committed by omission (failing to act) were significantly more likely to occur than errors committed by acts of commission.� By examining this case, policy implications and directions for future research are discussed. � The analysis of this case, and the underlying lessons learned from it will have important implications for researchers and practitioners in the policing field.
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