January 2019 - Police Chief Magazine

Behavioral Science: Informed Training for Unintentional Discharges

An empirical analysis of over 300 UD reports from 11 law enforcement agencies (10 U.S. agencies, 1 non-U.S. agency), dated between 1974 and 2016, was performed to determine the implications of such da...

Education & Training

Taking the Lead: The Implementation of Agency-Specific Leadership Training

Lieutenant John Morris was promoted to sergeant in 2008, and by 2015, he was a senior patrol sergeant with experience in teaching and developing courses. He approached a colleague—a patrol lieutenan...

Traffic Safety

How V2X Will Be a Game Changer for Public Safety

Emergency alerts have been sent and are ringing loudly on people’s electronic devices. Programming on radio and television has been interrupted to report the abduction of a four-year-old girl from a...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Healthy Commanders Make Healthy Agencies

A typical, quiet summer day in a small town in rural Kansas was recently shattered by gunfire when a suspect fleeing from police fired at the officers who were pursuing him. The officers returned fire...

Human & Civil Rights

The Positive Impact of Religious Diversity on a Police Force

Deputy Navdeep Singh Nijjar was 14 years old when his family moved from his native home of Punjab, India, to Houston, Texas, in 2000. He had family in Texas, so he knew enough about U.S. culture to kn...

Leadership

The Virtuous Leader

It’s one thing to be a leader in name and another in fact. In the absence of virtue, a putative leader is, at best, a mere manager, and, at worst, a bully or tyrant. The phrase “virtuous leader”...

President's Message

President’s Message: Leading the Leaders of Tomorrow, Today

Law enforcement leaders worldwide know without question that this continues to be a challenging time for the profession and for the communities we serve....

Leadership

Ten Lessons on Leadership

Experience is often said to be the best teacher and one commonwealth attorney’s “career case” taught him 10 key lessons about what leadership entails and the characteristics and skills that...