December 2017 - Police Chief Magazine

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Crime & Violence

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Female Gang Membership

In the face of the overwhelming violence both perpetuated by and affecting the young men trapped in the world of gang conflict, it is all too easy to overlook the young women who are also stranded in ...

officer with a body-worn camera during a traffic stop

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Body-Worn Cameras: The Most Underutilized Risk Management Tool

Imagine if an agency was able to actually ensure that its officers were safely responding to calls for service, communicating with the public in a courteous manner, and enforcing the law without viola...

Education & Training

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Changing Law Enforcement Culture One Deputy at a Time with LASD-CIT: Is that Crisis Intervention Training or Changing Inherent Thinking? Or Both?

Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) is a model law enforcement mental health collaboration program that is believed to benefit patrol personnel in their encounters with individuals experiencing a psych...

Community-Police Engagement

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Atlanta Police Bring HOPE to People Who Are Homeless

It’s a warm August morning in Atlanta, Georgia. The stifling heat and humidity of late summer has yet to take hold. A vast sea of discarded junk food containers, clothes, shoes, water bottles, and o...

Drugs & Alcohol

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The Police Chief’s Guide to Carfentanyl: Making Sense of the Elephant Tranquilizer in the Room

The use of synthetic opioid analogues is emerging as a means to concentrate the effect, and hence profits, of heroin and other oft-abused drugs. The word “opium” is derived from the ancient Greek ...

From the Director

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From the Acting Commissioner: Innovating for Better Border Security

From smartphones enhancing the interconnectivity of people worldwide to robotics enhancing manufacturing productivity and self-driving car research that aims to reduce highway fatalities, technology i...

Community-Police Engagement

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Peeling Back: Recognizing the Public Are the Police

Law enforcement has come a long way since 1839 when Sir Robert Peel outlined his general instructions to be issued to every new police officer in the Metropolitan Police. Or has it? When Sir Peel defi...

Community-Police Engagement

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Mental Illness and Homelessness: How Suburban Cities Can Reduce the Impacts on Their Communities

One need only look to recent media reports to see examples of negative encounters between law enforcement and individuals with mental illness who are experiencing homelessness. For example, a man expe...