December 2013

Ethical Defensibility: Using the Intelligence Led Policing Template to Avoid the Appearance of Unconstitutional Policing

The concept of Ethical Defensibility provides all sworn personnel with the philosophical tools and analytical skills necessary to weigh value-based alternatives, resulting in the repetitive acts neede...

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Traffic Safety Initiatives: Marijuana and Driving

The highway-safety question du jour is not whether police officers support or oppose the legalization of either marijuana or medical marijuana. After all, the legalization of medical marijuana with va...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Obesity as a Disability

Employees that are obese—possibly as little as 30 pounds over the recommended body weight for their height, age, and sex—are now more likely to be recognized as disabled, with rights under the 200...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: Officer Safety in Domestic Violence Responses

Patrolman Robert T. Frazier was shot and killed on April 30, 1875, while attempting to arrest Joe Reed for assaulting his wife. He was the first officer killed in the line of duty from the Nashville P...

Victim Services

Planning Ahead for Managing Victims and Their Families in Active Shooter Incidents

Active shooter incidents provide law enforcement with a number of crime-specific challenges. Among these significant challenges faced by law enforcement agencies responding to active shooter incidents...

Product Feature

Product Feature: Clothing and Accessories Make the Job Safer and Easier

Note: Police Chief magazine, from time-to-time, offers feature-length articles on products and services that are useful to law enforcement administrators. This article features clothing and accessorie...

Mass Casualty Attacks

Red Teaming for Fusion Centers

The San Diego Law Enforcement Coordination Center (SD-LECC) is a Department of Homeland Security–recognized fusion center and a member of the California State Threat Assessment System (STAS). It com...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Vision 21: Transforming Victim Services

As the first ones on the scene of a crime, police officers are also often the first responders to the victims of crimes. This places a tremendous responsibility on the shoulders of officers, who alrea...