December 2020 - Police Chief Magazine

Implementing the ELERV Strategy

In 2016, the Casper, Wyoming; Chattanooga, Tennessee; and Saginaw, Michigan, Police Departments were selected as demonstration sites for the Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Victims (ELERV) initi...

Recruitment & Personnel

Intelligence-Led Leadership Selection

Intelligence-led policing (ILP) has resulted in police operational decisions becoming increasingly data driven, and many communities are safer because police departments analyze incident data more eff...

Investigations

What Police Officers Need to Know About Palm Prints

For many years, the criminal justice community has relied on latent fingerprints to identify perpetrators of crimes. More recently, advancements in technology have allowed palm prints to also be used ...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Examining Violence Reduction Strategies

Despite aggregate reductions in violent crime, violent street crime continues to impact urban communities in the United States in various, significant ways. Recognizing this issue, the IACP/University...

President's Message

President’s Message: The Importance of Using Data to Tell Our Story

Every day, police agencies rely upon data to make tactical and operational decisions about how best to deploy resources and combat crime in their communities. These same data, when pulled together fro...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Animal Cruelty Hurts People Too

On January 1, 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began collecting information about crimes involving animal cruelty from law enforcement agencies that participate in the National Incident...

Crime & Violence

The Case for Crime Analysis

The policing profession is constantly adapting to a wide variety of changes. Some of these changes are considerable, such as the continued professionalization of the profession over the last 60 years....