February 2013

Law Enforcement’s Continuing Role in Homeland Security

In a recent Gallup poll, less than one-half of one percent of respondents ranked terrorism as the most important issue facing the United States.1 Contrast this with a similar poll taken months after 9...

Line of Duty Deaths

Line of Duty Deaths February 2013

Line of Duty Deaths “They will be remembered — not for the way they died, but for how they lived.” The IACP wishes to acknowledge the following officers, who made the ultimate sacrifice for thei...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: Sovereign Citizens on Traffic Stops

In August 2012, a police officer in Las Vegas stopped a truck for paper license plates that read simply, “Department of Transportation.” During the contact, the woman driving stated repeatedly, �...

Product Feature

Product Feature: Training and Testing

Technology is constantly shaping all aspects of society. Law enforcement is no exception. Because of this, keeping up with new information is more challenging than ever. But even as technology makes i...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Hot-Spot Randomized Control Works for Sacramento

Many questions regarding research on police methods have traditionally been raised, tested, and evaluated by academics. In this study, the research team did not comprise academics but rather practitio...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Secure Communities Program: Mandatory or Optional?

Congress created the Secure Communities (SC) program in 2003 to identify all those in the criminal justice system who are eligible for removal as illegal aliens. The law does not require the removal o...

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President’s Message: Stemming the Unacceptable Level of Gun Violence

Fewer than two months ago, tragedy struck Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. I feel compelled to discuss it in this column. Like you, I was stunned and devastated when I saw the ...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

The Northern Virginia Military Shooting Series: Operational Validation of Geospatial Predictive Analytics

In October 2010, someone deliberately fired a number of rounds at the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Triangle, Virginia. This was the beginning of a series of shootings that targeted multiple ...