January 2014

Officer Safety Corner: Getting to the “Heart” of Officer Safety

When leaders in law enforcement think of officer safety, issues like driving, firearms, and defensive tactics come to mind. Yet, a new initiative by the Boise (Idaho) Police Department (BPD) demonstra...

Recruitment & Personnel

Overcoming Tokenism and Gender Barriers: The Critical Role of Nongovernmental Organizations for Women in Federal Law Enforcement

According to 2008 figures provided by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Justice Statistics, women comprise just 15.5 percent of all sworn federal law enforcement officers, a decrease fro...

Traffic Safety

Reducing Officers’ Accidental Deaths

In 2012, 95 law enforcement officers made the supreme sacrifice in the United States, which is the fewest number of officers killed in at least 26 years (1987–2012).1 While reducing line-of-duty dea...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Hot Spot Policing at Work in Non-Urban Jurisdictions

The Riley County Police Department (RCPD) in Manhattan, Kansas, has employed geospatial crime reduction strategies on a macro level since 2010, concentrating high-visibility police activity in neighbo...

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Legislative Alert: U.S. Congress Passes the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013

Shortly after the U.S. House of Representatives passed a two-year budget deal, the Senate passed the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 (H.J. Res. 59). This marks the first complete federal budget to be si...