Dani Gudakunst, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Behavioral Science: Informed Training for Unintentional Discharges

An empirical analysis of over 300 UD reports from 11 law enforcement agencies (10 U.S. agencies, 1 non-U.S. agency), dated between 1974 and 2016, was performed to determine the implications of such da...

Education & Training

Taking the Lead: The Implementation of Agency-Specific Leadership Training

Lieutenant John Morris was promoted to sergeant in 2008, and by 2015, he was a senior patrol sergeant with experience in teaching and developing courses. He approached a colleague—a patrol lieutenan...

The Brief

IACP Child Sex Trafficking: A Training Series for Frontline Officers Toolkit

Child sex trafficking victims can be extremely challenging to identify, given the hidden nature of the crime and the low likelihood that victims will report victimization. When frontline officers are ...

IACP Net Bulletin

Network with Peers on IACP Net

IACP Net’s Quest-Response service allows users to build on the experience of others. This secure networking tool broadcasts user questions to more than 6,000 law enforcement leaders. Participants sh...

IACP@Work

Practices in Modern Policing: Highlighting Contemporary Community Policing Innovation

The Advancing 21st Century Policing Initiative, launched by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services and the IACP in 2016, worked with 15 law enforcement agencies diverse in size, location, ...

Tech Talk

Tech Talk: Video Evidence in the Courtroom – Technology Challenges and Standards

Most courts throughout North America have failed to keep up with visual evidence presentation technologies, even though the source image quality continues to march forward. In today’s surveillance ...

Human & Civil Rights

The Positive Impact of Religious Diversity on a Police Force

Deputy Navdeep Singh Nijjar was 14 years old when his family moved from his native home of Punjab, India, to Houston, Texas, in 2000. He had family in Texas, so he knew enough about U.S. culture to kn...

Leadership

The Virtuous Leader

It’s one thing to be a leader in name and another in fact. In the absence of virtue, a putative leader is, at best, a mere manager, and, at worst, a bully or tyrant. The phrase “virtuous leader”...