March 2018

Pre-Arrest Diversion: The Long Overdue Collaboration Between Police and Treatment

In 1972, a U.S. federal initiative resulting from efforts led by the White House’s Special Action Office for Drug Prevention, the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (predecessor to the Bureau...

Drugs & Alcohol

Rutland, Vermont, Case Study: Using DMI to Combat Covert Opioid Markets

According to a recent forecast, as many as 650,000 people in the United States will die from opioid overdoses over the next 10 years. Some 50,000 people died from opioid overdoses in 2016. When that f...

Drugs & Alcohol

International Narcotics Control: A Program of Cooperation

The only viable response to drug abuse problems is now, and always will be, international in scope....

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Avoiding a Peer Support Pitfall

Officer Verdugo had just marked his second year on the job when he fatally shot a man charging at him with a kitchen knife. A few days after the shooting, while the encounter was still raw in Officer ...

President's Message

President’s Message: Combating Complex Drug Issues Requires a Collaborative, Multifaceted Approach

Drug trafficking and drug abuse have always posed a challenge for law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve. We have all repeatedly borne witness to the human toll that drug abuse has ta...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Assessing the Effectiveness of Automatic License Plate Readers

Although the evidence-based policing movement has gained traction, many of the policies and practices U.S. law enforcement employ are still based on dogma and tradition, rather than research. As a res...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: Regional Peer Support Makes a Difference

A study conducted over an eight-year period (2008–2016) by Badge for Life shows that the rate of suicide in 2008 for law enforcement was 17 per 100,000 officers. This compares to a rate of 11 per 1...

Technology Talk

Technology Talk: Improving Crime Investigations with License Plate Recognition Technology

These days, many law enforcement officials are less worried about “broken windows” perpetuating small delinquencies and more concerned with detecting and preventing the serious crimes associated w...