Camryn Nethken, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Inside the FBI/CJIS: The CJIS Advisory Process

When the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division shares its cutting-edge investigative and identification services with U.S. police agencies, it doesn’t do so in a vacuum. The ...

President's Message

President’s Message: A Collective Responsibility

When we hear elected officials, the media, and community members discuss the criminal justice system, almost always, these discussions focus on the police. However, as we know, the real criminal justi...

Spotlight

Spotlight: Fostering Support for All

When a public safety center in Oregon chose to partner with the Clatsop County Animal Assistance, they had planned to obtain a dog that would improve the mental health of their employees. What they...

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...

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...

Product Feature

Product Feature: Attracting and Maintaining a Resilient Workforce

Since the dawn of the new decade, the policing profession has faced a dual crisis: recruitment and retention. A reflection of societal shifts and institutional challenges, the traditional allure of th...

The Brief

The Brief: The IACP’s Latest Recruitment Efforts to Mitigate Retention Challenges

It is no secret that the policing profession currently faces a recruitment and retention problem. For several years now, agencies of all types, sizes, and locations have been struggling to find and re...