Dani Gudakunst, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Product Feature: Training Programs Adapt to Modern Needs

Training has always been a key part of the law enforcement career continuum. In order to effectively police a population, officers need to stay informed on changes in the law, in technology, in method...

Legislative Alert

Legislative Alert: FY 2018 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill Passes the Senate Appropriations Committee

Maintain[ing] funding for core programs, including law enforcement and state and local public safety grants,” the FY 2018 Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill passed the Senate Appropriati...

IACP Working for You

IACP Working for You: IACP Provides Engagement Opportunities for Members

Over the past few years, IACP membership has grown significantly, from 24,000 members in 2014, to just over 30,000 members as of June 2017—the highest number of IACP members to date. While membershi...

Technology Talk

Technology Talk: HSI Forensic Laboratory: A Unique Resource for Law Enforcement

As criminals and criminal organizations continue to engage in increasingly sophisticated illegal activity that often spans multiple jurisdictions, it is vitally important that law enforcement utilizes...

IACP

IACP 2017 Featured Highlights: Solutions for a Safer Society

IACP 2017 will be taking place October 21–24, 2017, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. It is not too late to make plans to join thousands of law enforcement leader...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Ninth Circuit’s Provocation Rule

In a recent case, County of Los Angeles v. Mendez, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the “provocation rule” developed by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1994. The provocation rule provided ...

Education & Training

Integrating State and Local Expertise into the Intelligence Community

The United States faces an adaptive enemy, both at home and abroad, and attacks and plots over the past 15 years demonstrate that the threat to the United States is ongoing. These threats not only ema...

Traffic Safety

Effects of Electronic Stability Control (ESC) on the Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT)

For more than 30 years, law enforcement has relied on the Precision Immobilization Technique (PIT) to disable fleeing vehicles and to remove aggressor vehicles from motorcades or convoys. When conduct...