August 2017 - Police Chief Magazine

Integrating State and Local Expertise into the Intelligence Community

The United States faces an adaptive enemy, both at home and abroad, and attacks and plots over the past 15 years demonstrate that the threat to the United States is ongoing. These threats not only ema...

Traffic Safety

Effects of Electronic Stability Control (ESC) on the Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT)

For more than 30 years, law enforcement has relied on the Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT) to disable fleeing vehicles and to remove aggressor vehicles from motorcades or convoys. When conduct...

Community-Police Engagement

Is the Police Data Initiative Right for Your Agency?

When many current law enforcement leaders were beginning their careers, the term “open data” was not frequently used within the field of law enforcement. Historically, many police chiefs preferred...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Human Fatigue in 24/7 Operations: Law Enforcement Considerations and Strategies for Improved Performance

For the nearly 18,000 law enforcement agencies operating in the United States, their responsibilities span every minute of every day. To ensure that policing services can be provided around the clock,...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Risk Management: A Key Component in Public Safety

In a memo addressed to Berkshire Hathaway managers, Warren Buffet stated, “Culture, more than rule books, determines how an organization behaves.”1 When it comes to risk management (RM) in law enf...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Risk Management Through Fatigue Management

Think back on the last time you rested. Did you get at least seven hours of uninterrupted sleep, and, if so, did you get the same amount of rest the last nine times you slept? If the answer to either ...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Hill v. Miracle: Adapting the Graham Standard to Non-Criminal Interventions

Just over two years ago, in 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in City & County of San Francisco, California v. Sheehan portended a potential shift in the court’s view on police use of fo...

Leadership

How Risk Affects Your Ability to Lead

For the past couple of decades, law enforcement executives in the United States have seen an increase in the monitoring of their operations by local civil rights organizations and the U.S. Department ...