June 2012

Officer Safety Corner: Enhanced Data, Enhanced Officer Safety

According to the IACP’s National Center for the Prevention of Violence Against the Police, in 2011, the 72 officers feloniously killed in the line of duty marked a 17-year high and a 27 percent incr...

President's Message

President’s Message: Our Recommitment to Addressing Wrongful Convictions

In my inaugural remarks at IACP 2011 in Chicago, Illinois, I spoke about this year being a time for collective recommitment to our continuing mission of advancing police services and encouraging polic...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Understanding the Intelligence Practices of State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies

One of the major trends in law enforcement has been changing expectations regarding criminal intelligence practices among state, local, and tribal (SLT) law enforcement agencies. Enhancing intelligenc...

Terrorism

Social Media and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat

While social media strategies present new opportunities and are playing historic roles in spreading prodemocracy uprisings across the Middle East, they also are creating new concerns for security agen...

Traffic Safety

Highway Safety Initiative: Speed Is Still Killing

The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) recently released the 2012 edition of the Survey of the States: Speeding and Aggressive Driving. The report is based on a survey to which all 50 states ...

Community-Police Engagement

Telling a Story through Social Media

Imagine if everyone opened up their morning newspaper every day and first read a short, positive story about an officer making a successful arrest. Then they turn the page and see photos and charges f...

Technology Talk

Technology Talk: The Future of Public Safety Communications: Facts and Fiction

For many years, the IACP has been one of the leading public safety organizations in developing strategies and positions to improve public safety communications....

Legal

The Lingering Privacy Concerns on High-Tech Surveillance and Monitoring of the Public

Many of us waited for months for the U.S. Supreme Court to issue its opinion in United States v. Jones, hoping upon hope to receive guidance on the rapidly evolving legal and policy issues related to ...