October 2017 - Police Chief Magazine

Immediate Transport as a Lifesaving Measure for Trauma Victims

Self-administered first aid kits or trauma kits have become standard officer-issued equipment in recent history. These kits enhance officers’ capability to save lives—their own or other persons—...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Research Study: Time to Tourniquet

Violent attacks and related mass casualty events continue to occur, with recent headline incidents such as the Las Vegas Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting, Republican congressional baseball te...

Technology

The Sound of a Thousand Bees: Lessons Learned in Developing a Successful Law Enforcement Drone Program

On June 1, 2017, shortly after 10:00 a.m., the Stafford County, Virginia, Sheriff’s Office was notified that an individual had fired shots into a vehicle parked on private property in the northern p...

Criminal Justice Reform

The Ferguson Effect Reinterpreted

Most people recognize that the United States is experiencing a social change that has the possibility to be interpreted by future historians as transformational. A substantial component of this change...

Leadership

Law Enforcement and Urbanization in 2037

One of the challenges for modern law enforcement leaders is trying to balance today’s needs against future plans. All municipal executives experience the pressure of the annual or biennial budget cy...

IACP

IACP 2017: Know Before You Go

The IACP Annual Conference and Exposition features more than 200 education sessions, more than 600 exhibitors, and hundreds of meetings and networking events. With so much going on, you will want to r...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Beyond the Event Horizon: Emergent Realities in Law Enforcement

Predicting the future is like trying to peer inside a black hole: no one can see what’s inside until one has passed the point of no return—the “event horizon” in astronomy terms. It stands to ...

Education & Training

The Landscape of Police Education and Training 2037

The first U.S. police training academy was August Vollmer’s Berkeley Police School, which opened in 1908.1 At the time, most agencies did not provide formal training to new officers, and the idea of...