November 2014

Recapturing Lives: Homeless Outreach in Broward County, Florida

Today, there are almost 3,000 people in Broward County, Florida, who do not have a place to call home. Sheriff Scott Israel and the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) are taking steps to address the ...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: The Changing Story of Eyewitness Confidence and the Validity of Identification

The point has often been made that eyewitness misidentification played a role in 75 percent of the more than 300 wrongful convictions that were later overturned by DNA evidence. These misidentificati...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Highway Safety Initiatives: Rising Concerns over Marijuana-Impaired Driving

Studies have found that, after alcohol, marijuana is the most frequently detected substance in the general driving population, as well as drivers involved in crashes. Fourteen U.S. states conducted t...

Education & Training

The Pursuit of Law Enforcement Intelligence Training and Education

The application of the “discipline of intelligence” to law enforcement assists executives, managers, investigators, analysts, and first responders “reduce uncertainty by collecting information, ...

From the Director

From the Director: The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs: Working with Tribal Partners to Reduce Crime and Recidivism on American Indian Reservations

With those words, Thomas Lightfoot, U.S. Indian Agent to the Iowa and the Sac and Fox American Indian tribes in Nebraska, became the first officer to report to a federal American Indian police agency....

President's Message

President’s Message: The Year Ahead – November 2014

Let me start by saying thank you to the numerous members of our association for the support and encouragement you have provided me along my journey to president of the International Association of Chi...