Camryn Nethken, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Research in Brief: Superusers of Small-Town Police Resources

Effective police management requires careful attention to how an agency spends its scarce resources. Yet, police agencies routinely spend vast amounts of resources on small numbers of people and place...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: Motor Vehicle Crash and Struck-By LODD Investigations—NIOSH Case Study and Recommendations

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Law Enforcement Officer (LEO) Motor Vehicle Crash and Struck-by Fatality Investigations Program investigates LEO line-of-duty deaths d...

Focus on Officer Wellness

Focus on Officer Wellness: Officer Wellness Programs—Research Evidence and a Call to Action

Research consistently suggests that law enforcement officers are at a higher risk of experiencing anxiety, acute and posttraumatic stress, and depression than individuals in other professions. In tur...

Leadership

Where Will Tomorrow’s Law Enforcement Leaders Come From?

As a leader of a law enforcement organization, or a part of the leadership team, when was the last time you actually stopped and considered where the next generation of law enforcement leaders w...

Drugs & Alcohol

Proactive Alliance: The Ethos of Broken Windows

In 1982, criminologists George L. Kelling and James Q. Wilson published an article titled “Broken Windows.” They asserted that police could prevent more serious crimes by resolving smaller crimina...

Terrorism

Shifting Sands: Terrorism as an Evolving Concept

Members of the British public have not been strangers to terrorism and extremist beliefs. Over the centuries, the United Kingdom has been at the vanguard of dealing with extremist views, be those of ...

Community-Police Engagement

Media Coverage: When It Doesn’t Work Well… and When It Does

Law enforcement agencies and the media have a symbiotic relationship, with both entities depending on each other. While the two have common goals, they sometimes have diverging priorities. As with ...

IACP@Work

IACP@Work: One Officer Suicide Is Too Many

Although there is a shortage of data on the occurrences of officer suicide globally, it is clear that many law enforcement agencies are affected by this issue. For example, in France, the suicide rate...