Dani Gudakunst, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Chief’s Counsel: Hill v. Miracle: Adapting the Graham Standard to Non-Criminal Interventions

Just over two years ago, in 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in City & County of San Francisco, California v. Sheehan portended a potential shift in the court’s view on police use of fo...

Leadership

How Risk Affects Your Ability to Lead

For the past couple of decades, law enforcement executives in the United States have seen an increase in the monitoring of their operations by local civil rights organizations and the U.S. Department ...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Measuring Police Proactivity

One of the most significant reforms in modern policing has been the push for law enforcement to be more proactive in reducing crime or building trust and confidence with their communities. While there...

Policy

Some Thoughts on Real Risk Management

How did law enforcement take the broad discipline known as “risk management” and try to put it into a box, limiting it to “the safety” stuff or the “code enforcement” stuff? Risk managemen...

Education & Training

Risk Management: Raising the Performance Level and Lowering the Liability Threat

For decades, the law enforcement profession has responded to external pressures (lawsuits, negative press, Department of Justice investigations, consent decrees, citizen review boards, public demonstr...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: Bulletproof Spirit: Emotional Health and Wellness

Emotional health and wellness is one of the most critical issues facing law enforcement, yet it is one of the least addressed. The stress and trauma faced by officers have adverse effects on their emo...

Education & Training

Unequipped, Underfunded, Understaffed: Investing in Your Officers to Manage Risk

Law enforcement agencies are faced with tough decisions every day to ensure their communities are protected. An agency’s ability to fulfill this responsibility comes down to three vital components: ...

IACP Working for You

IACP Working For You: Trauma-Informed Policing: Responding to Children Exposed to Violence

Millions of children and adolescents in the United States are exposed to violence as victims or witnesses in their homes, schools, and communities every year. Findings from the second National Survey ...