July 2013 - Police Chief Magazine

Cincinnati HAZARD: A Place-Based Traffic Enforcement and Violent Crime Strategy

In 2006, the Cincinnati, Ohio, Police Department developed and implemented its Crash Analysis Reduction Strategy (CARS), which reduced traffic crashes through a series of focused strategies that reduc...

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Efforts Continue to Address Drugged Driving, But Is It Enough?

A growing body of research is confirming what law enforcement officers and traffic safety experts have suspected for years: that many licit, illicit, and over-the-counter drugs impair a driver’s abi...

Investigations

Eyewitness Identification: An Update on What Chiefs Need to Know

The police properly view their role as detecting what crime has been committed and who, in fact, committed it and who, in fact, did not. The investigative stage may be controlled by legal rules but it...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Has the Supreme Court Cleared the Air on K-9 Drug Sniffs? Two U.S. Supreme Court Cases on K-9 Drug Sniffs

Two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions involved the use of trained dogs to sniff for drugs in an effort to develop probable cause to conduct a search. In the first case, Harris, the Court decided tha...

Traffic Safety

Highly Visible Traffic Enforcement Drives Truck and Bus Safety

The fundamental mission of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) is to ensure that U.S. citizens travel safely from one destination to another. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ...

President's Message

President’s Message: IACP: Breaking the Silence on Law Enforcement Suicides

Law enforcement agencies are like families. A special camaraderie forms in a department where men and women work side by side in service to their communities. Not unlike more traditional family units,...

Products & Services

July 2013 Products & Services

Where do the good ideas come from? In this column, we offer our readers the opportunity to learn about—and benefit from—some of the cutting-edge technologies being implemented by law enforcement ...

Line of Duty Deaths

July 2013 Line of Duty Deaths

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 their ...