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HSI and the Angel Watch Center: Combating Child Sex Tourism

It is often said that the world is becoming a much smaller place. The rapid advances in technology over the past several years now require agencies and departments at all levels and in every country t...

Youth

The Direct Relationship of Mentoring, Positive Intervention, and Enhanced Youth-Police Engagement

Mentoring—investing time into encouraging and supporting someone else’s life, education, career, or professional development—is generally accepted to be a positive act that yields positive outco...

Youth

The MASTLE: Obtaining Legitimacy Through Fair, Impartial, and Objective Decision-Making

Trust and legitimacy are built on fairness and integrity. When law enforcement personnel are trustworthy, honest, and concerned about the well-being of the people they encounter, long-term relationshi...

From the Director

From the Administrator: Law Enforcement’s Role in Changing Minds About Children’s Exposure to Violence

Children who experience and witness violence are robbed of their childhoods and bear physical and emotional scars that can last a lifetime. We know that youth who have been exposed to violence are mor...

Cybercrime

Protecting Children Worldwide: HSI’s Strategy for Preventing Online Child Exploitation

During the 2015 International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) annual conference in Chicago, Illinois, law enforcement executives and senior leaders from departments and agencies around the worl...

IACP

Great Ideas

Policing has a long and storied history, but as any textbook can tell you, it is also constantly evolving. Sometimes the evolution of policing is catalyzed by a particularly innovative idea. Being ...

Community-Police Relations

Forging a School-Police Relationship to Decrease Student Arrests

"Bridgeport School Arrests, Suspensions Down” declared a July 2015 headline in the Connecticut Post. Communities across the United States are seeing similar results as they try to decrease “school...

Youth

21st Century Youth-Focused Policing: Engaging Youth through the Six Pillars

The Final Report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing pointed out how a number of landmark events involving law enforcement responses in the United States have exposed “rifts in ...