March 2015

Product Feature: Mobile Goes Beyond the Phone

The advent of smartphones has led to many benefits for savvy law enforcement and public safety professionals, just as it has in many other fields and areas of life. The ability to do more things autom...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: A Method for Psychophysiological Assessment of Acute Stress Induced by High-Pressure Law Enforcement Driving

In police work, when anxiety levels become high, attention is directed to threat-related sources of information. This may make it more difficult to pay attention to goal-directed information that is r...

Youth

The Effects of Active Shooter Resilience Training Programs on College Students’ Perceptions of Personal Safety

Public safety and higher education leaders have implemented a variety of strategies to develop more resilient communities to prevent or mitigate the harm that comes from targeted violence. These strat...

Community-Police Engagement

The Impact of School Resource Officers on Community-Based Policing

Effective school resource officer (SRO) programs recognize and utilize the special training and expertise law enforcement officers possess that is well suited to effectively protect and serve the scho...

Education & Training

Training and Teamwork Put to the Test: The 2013 Santa Monica College Shooting

It was a typical June day in Santa Monica, California—a hazy morning shrouded in what area weather forecasters like to call “June Gloom.” With summer vacation days away, children in the Santa Mo...

President's Message

President’s Message: Working to Make Our Schools Safe

The past two decades have clearly demonstrated that schools are not immune to violent attacks. Active shooters tend to seek out places of mass gatherings, like schools, in order to shock our conscienc...