September 2011

Traffic Safety Initiatives: Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT): Washington State’s Efforts to Reduce Collisions Involving Commercial Vehicles

Basic physics tells us that when a passenger vehicle is involved in a collision with a large truck—a vehicle used in commerce with a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 10,000 pounds—the like...

Terrorism

What Law Enforcement Needs to Know about Improvised Explosives

On February 22, 2010, terrorist Najibullah Zazi pled guilty to conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiring to commit murder in a foreign country, and providing material support to a fore...

Terrorism

10 Years after 9/11: Lessons Learned by the New York City Police Department

Since 9/11, terrorists have targeted New York City 13 times with plots against the New York Stock Exchange, Citigroup headquarters, the Brooklyn Bridge, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Times Sq...

President's Message

President’s Message: 9/11: 10 Years Later

It is hard to imagine that it has been 10 years since the horrific events of 9/11. The images of the carnage in New York City; Arlington, Virginia; and Pennsylvania are indelibly etched into our consc...