Month: January 2010
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Understanding crime prevention starts with defining what is crime prevention in today’s world. That seems like an easy thing to define—“crime prevention” is the “prevention of crime”—but...
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Click to view the PDF of the 2009 IACP Awards Photos by Convention Photo by Joe Orlando, except where otherwise indicated. Police Officer of the Year The IACP and PARADE magazine join forces to recogn...
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2009 Excellence in Police Aviation Award This year, three awards were presented by the IACP Aviation Committee and Bell Helicopter Textron: one to recognize an individual who holds a management or lea...
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Many police departments have developed successful Business Watch programs as part of their crime prevention community outreach initiatives. These Business Watch programs, like neighborhood watch progr...
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Katie Sepich was abducted, raped, and fatally strangled, then her body was set on fire and hidden in a town garbage dump on August 31, 2003. A minuscule amount of tissue recovered from Katie’s finge...
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In early December, Congress passed a package of spending bills—or omnibus—that will fund government agencies through the end of this fiscal year, September 30, 2010. The omnibus includes funding l...
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The U.S. public thinks crime is a serious problem and believes that crime is worse today than it was in 2006. This finding was consistent across national surveys conducted in the fall of 2007 by three...