“Being Wrong” is this year’s Common Reading book for thousands of WSU students, with dozens of first-year and other classes drawing discussion topics from its pages.
Looking at some of the “right’s” that have come from a series of “wrong’s,” WSU Spokane criminologist Bryan Vila will present “Mistaken Adventures Around the Globe” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, 8/27, in Smith CUE 203. The public is welcome.
Based on experiences as a teenaged Marine, a young street cop, and a police chief, Vila will share his hard-won strategies for embracing error as inevitable, learning to recover with good humor, and wringing good lessons from bad times.
He’ll also describe how his unique simulation lab uses Normal Accident Theory to study the impact of fatigue-related errors on deadly force judgment and decision making, police driving, and counterinsurgency operations.