June 2015 - Police Chief Magazine

Citizen Perceptions of Online Crime Reporting Systems

Can technology be used to improve the process of submitting crime reports to law enforcement agencies? In the last 20 years there has been a radical change in the way technology is utilized in most pe...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Highway Safety Initiatives: Culture Shift Toward Data-Driven Public Safety in the City of Thibodaux, Louisiana

It might be difficult to believe, but the most challenging obstacle to reducing crime is changing the culture of law enforcement. Removing “That’s the way we always did it,” from the department ...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Diversity in the Workplace

On a chilly November day in 1863, a great man said, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition...

Recruitment & Personnel

Eliminating Gender and Racial Stereotypes in Police Culture through Stakeholder Collaboration

From childhood onward, people, including police administrators and officers, are taught by their parents, teachers, and peers the appropriate roles (according to these influences) of women and minorit...

Human & Civil Rights

Fair and Impartial Policing: A Science-Based Approach

The fair and impartial policing (FIP) perspective–based on the modern science of bias—is consistent with the profession’s current emphasis on evidence-based policing, whereby policies and practi...

IACP Working for You

IACP Working for You In the mission to support the law enforcement leaders of today and develop the leaders of tomorrow, the IACP is constantly involved in advocacy, programs, research, and ini...

Technology

Integrated Intelligence for Public Safety

When an elderly woman in Ohio went missing, law enforcement response time became the difference between life and death. Her niece called the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) to report the disappearanc...

Line of Duty Deaths

June 2015 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 sacrif...