Camryn Nethken, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Traffic Safety Initiatives: The Pedestrian Problem in Maryland

In 2018, in Maryland, 131 pedestrians lost their lives as a result of a motor vehicle crash.1 Of those fatalities, about 20 percent were in Baltimore County.2 When any five-year trend was considere...

Perspectives

Perspectives: July 2024

We have benefited from annual department-wide crowd control training, as it can take time for the frontline officers and supervisors to get comfortable with crowd control formations. For planned re...

IACP@Work

IACP@Work: Officer Wellness Dashboard

Over the past several years, the importance of officer wellness has come to the forefront with more agencies implementing wellness programs, embedding wellness into their agency culture, and investing...

Informer

Informer: July 2024

Research abounds on topics related to policing and criminal justice, and it can be difficult to sift through it all. Informer breaks down three studies for police leaders to help keep them up to date....

Spotlight

Spotlight: Running Toward Future Growth

Jon Matthews, a sergeant with the Greensboro Police Department, left the profession after serving for 10 years in order to become a full-time youth minister. Although he thrived in his pastorate for m...

Technology

Inside the FBI/CJIS: Working Together to Keep Guns from Prohibited People

The FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) is used to search available background information about individuals who are seeking to possess a firearm. Federal firearms lice...

Roll Call

Roll Call: Stephen Redfearn

When I became a division chief at my prior agency, I wanted access to all of the material, training, and conferences that the IACP provides. I knew that these things would assist me in my new role as ...

Exposition

Exposition: July 2024

Stay up to date on new products and advances in technology to ensure your officers are equipped with the tools they need....