September 2018 - Police Chief Magazine

Facility Design for Community Engagement

Law enforcement is constantly evolving to meet the needs of today’s environment. As the landscape of policing changes over time, many agencies need facilities that can incorporate or accommodate the...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

The Stratified Policing Model in the Delaware State Police: Implications for Statewide Evidence-Based Practices

A trooper on patrol is dispatched to the scene of a shoplifting at a mall; another is dispatched to a residential burglary in a rural area; and a third investigates a personal injury motor vehicle acc...

Recruitment & Personnel

NDI: Tracking Interstate Movement of Decertified Police Officers

All professions, even those with selective recruiting processes and rigorous hiring standards such as law enforcement, are required to deal with misconduct from a member of their field at some time. I...

Recruitment & Personnel

Recruiting for Resiliency

The last few years of high-profile crises involving law enforcement have demonstrated the need for resilient police officers. Officers who lack resiliency are more prone to react to situations in an u...

Recruitment & Personnel

Changing Times; Changing Strategies: One Agency’s Experience with Innovative Recruitment

For a number of years, the Winston-Salem Police Department, a North Carolina law enforcement agency of 560 sworn officers, easily filled its police academy with 30–40 recruits from diverse backgroun...

Recruitment & Personnel

The NOBLE Mentoring Potential CEOs Program: A Process to Develop Chiefs of Police

The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) established a mentoring program for aspiring chief executive officers (CEOs) in July 2006 called the Mentoring Potential Chief Exe...

Recruitment & Personnel

Police Personnel Retention Challenges: Literature Review and Recommendations

The challenge of recruiting and hiring quality personnel has emerged as a critical problem for today’s law enforcement agencies.1 The roots of the current law enforcement officer recruitment movemen...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Carpenter v. United States: Digital Privacy in the 21st Century

The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 22, 2018, decision in Carpenter v. United States held that, before compelling a wireless carrier to turn over a subscriber’s cell-site location information (CSLI), th...