July 2025

The Transnational Phenomenon of Drug Trafficking

Drug trafficking is a highly complex, transnational, and constantly changing criminal practice, posing continuous and substantial challenges to public security forces. This is a phenomenon that direct...

Spotlight

Spotlight: A Structured Path to Recovery

Can correctional facilities be places of treatment rather than punishment? The Essex County, Massachusetts, Sheriff’s Department (ECSD) has created a program that attempts to answer this question....

Technology

Inside the FBI/CJIS: The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data Collections

The FBI provides the United States with reliable statistics pertaining to crime and law enforcement through its Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. As a precursor to the FBI’s UCR Program, the In...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Going Beyond Face Value

Facial recognition technology (FRT) emerged 50 years ago from experiments that measured facial attributes to search for matches on a semi-automated system.1 Modern FRT is an electronic system that us...

Drugs & Alcohol

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Defeating the Fentanyl Crisis

In the battle against synthetic opioids, the spotlight is often on the United States, where fentanyl devastates communities, driving record-breaking overdose deaths and overwhelming police and public ...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: Detection in 60 Seconds

Impaired drivers pose a critical threat to public safety, and officers must be equipped with tools to detect impairment quickly and accurately. Advanced techniques can enhance the efficiency and sensi...

Drugs & Alcohol

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Closing the Drug Intelligence Gap

In 2018, Ohio had the fifth highest age-adjusted drug poisoning (overdose) mortality rate in the United States, with 39,257 suspected fatal and nonfatal drugs poisonings (13–14 fatal poisonings a da...

President's Message

President’s Message: Navigating the Drug Crisis

Across the globe, headlines continue to underscore a grim reality: the drug crisis remains a persistent and deadly threat to our communities. While the specific substances may vary by region, the cons...