February 2025

Better Together

It was early morning, on a Saturday. I was in foot pursuit. I ran left, then jerked right. I side-saddled over a short wall. At a full sprint, I scaled a chain-link fence. Whew. I didn’t rip my pant...

Exposition

Exposition: February 2025

Stay up to date on new products and advances in technology to ensure your officers are equipped with the tools they need. POLICE CHIEF keeps you on the cutting edge of law enforcement technology with...

Tech Talk

Tech Talk: Navigating Video Privacy Challenges in Policing

Police agencies are increasingly capturing and processing audio, video, and mobile data related to crimes with body-worn cameras documenting officers’ daily operations. This results in a growing vol...

Community-Police Engagement

Engagement from Day One

Community engagement has become a central focus of modern policing, particularly in the wake of high-profile incidents in recent years and growing public scrutiny. The traditional enforcement-centric ...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: All Bark and No Empirical Bite

Recent research has placed one of policing’s most venerable tools—the K9 unit—under fresh empirical scrutiny. The findings of a new study run counter to long-held convictions on both sides of th...

IACP@Work

IACP@Work: Public Safety Needs… A Connector!

Technology is advancing in the world and in policing like never before. Industrial technological advances show powerful potential to aid public safety efforts, but there is little time to study actual...

Technology

Modernizing Patrol Operations

In the fall of 2022, the Vancouver, British Columbia, Police Department (VPD) embarked on an initiative to modernize its patrol operations in a drive to become a more intelligence-led organization. F...

Leadership Insight

Leadership Insights: Navigating Crisis and Resilience

In an 18-month period, my agency in Dayton, Ohio, faced a series of unprecedented challenges: a significant water emergency due to a major pipe break, a large-scale white supremacist rally requiring t...