January 2021

IACP@Work: Protocol Development Tools for Anti-Human Trafficking Task Forces

Multidisciplinary anti-human trafficking task forces support a collaborative effort among local and federal law enforcement, prosecutors, victim service providers, and other community stakeholders to ...

Leadership

Six Critical Incident Lessons Learned for Commanding Officers

As leaders in the ever-evolving field of policing, police commanders have a duty and responsibility to share lessons learned with their peers. Such lessons can come from a variety of topics, and those...

Ethics

Police Professional Responsibility as an Organizational Practice

Recent events have focused attention on police reform and led to public demands to “rethink” how police services are provided. The enormous amount of attention focused on restraint techniques, qua...

português

Mensagem do presidente: A importância de usar dados para contarmos nossa própria história

View original English version. Todos os dias, as agências de policia fazem uso de dados para tomar decisões táticas e operacionais sobre a melhor forma de empregar recursos e combater o crim...

español

Mensaje de la Presidenta: La importancia de Usar datos para Contar Nuestra Historia

View original English version. Todos los días, las agencias de policía dependen de datos para tomar decisiones tácticas y operativas para encontrar la mejor manera de desplegar recursos y co...

français

Message du président : l’importance d’utiliser les données pour raconter notre histoire

View original English version. Chaque jour, les services de police s’appuient sur des données pour prendre des décisions tactiques et opérationnelles sur la meilleure façon de déployer les ...

العربية

رسالة الرئيسة: أهمية استخدام البيانات لسرد قصتنا

View original English version. تعتمد وكالات الشرطة في عملها اليومي على البيانات لاتخاذ قرارات تكتيكية وعملية حول أفضل ا...

Technology

Publicity, Sunlight, and the Electric Light

The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis, wrote “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric l...