September 2004

Legislative Alert: President Bush Signs Concealed Carry Legislation into Law

On July 22, President Bush signed into law H.R. 218, the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act. The law will allow off-duty and retired officers to carry concealed weapons throughout the country, regard...

Line of Duty Deaths

Line of Duty Deaths: September 2004

"They will be remembered—not for the way they died, but for how they lived."...

Community-Police Engagement

Low-Cost Innovations: Community Outreach through Children’s Programs

In 1995 the City of Pocomoke began an innovative approach to community policing by initiating a number of community outreach programs aimed at youth. The programs grew from modest beginnings, with lit...

Community-Police Engagement

Low-Cost Innovations: Police-Community Partnership Program

For many years the Lodi Police Department had too little involvement with the community. The department was reactive; the prevailing policing style was to wait for a crime to be committed or a problem...

Drugs & Alcohol

Low-Cost Innovations: Reducing Nuisance Parties and Noise Complaints

Big Rapids, in northwest Michigan, has a population of about 10,000. It is also home to 10,000 Ferris State University students. Approximately 3,000 students live on campus and another 5,000 live in r...

Community-Police Engagement

Low-Costs Innovations: Proud: Giving Neighborhoods A Fresh Start

For years, the nationally recognized Neighborhood Watch program provided Morrow's residents with knowledge of crime prevention techniques. Sadly, the program was not maintaining its initial enthusiasm...

Community-Police Engagement

Marketing the Smaller Agency

Police officers perform many tasks to safeguard their community's quality of life. Sometimes their constituents take for granted, forget, or do not know about the good work that officers do and the ri...

President's Message

President’s Message: Reauthorization of the Assault Weapons Ban

By the time you read this column, it is highly probable that the federal ban on semiautomatic assault weapons will have expired and once again these weapons will begin to flood our communities and thr...