Dani Gudakunst, Author at Police Chief Magazine

IACP Working for You: Benchmarking and Performance Analytics: Your New Tool for Data-Driven Decision-Making

The law enforcement profession abounds with data and metrics—crime and clearance rates, staffing ratios, training hours, salary levels, and so forth. Humans have a natural desire to gauge performanc...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

9 Ideas from Research on Improving Police Efforts to Control Crime

Preventing crime, securing public safety in fair and lawful ways, and building public confidence and trust in the police, should be core missions of law enforcement in democratic societies. To achiev...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Enforcement: Calculating the Benefits to the Community

Law enforcement recruits and new officers are often asked the same question repeatedly during their application process and time at the training academy—why do you want to become an officer? Most re...

Product Update

Product Update: July 2017

The Police Chief keeps you on the cutting edge of law enforcement technology with monthly product announcements. Items about new or improved products are based on news releases supplied by manufacture...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Focused Deterrence: Looking to Past Success to Determine Future Uses

Recent research has shown that traditional policing strategies from the 20th century, such as rapid response, random patrols, and reactive policing, have been widely ineffective. In response to incre...

Cybercrime

The U.S. Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Forces: Employing Public-Private Sector Partnerships to Combat Cybercrime

Coordinating both the expertise and efforts of the various law enforcement, public safety, and private sector entities involved in the massive endeavor of securing a country is extremely complex. It i...

Product Feature

Product Feature: Public Safety Facility Design Requires a Careful Balance of Security and Hospitality

There might be no sector of government or business whose buildings serve such complex—and often competing—purposes as those of law enforcement. First and foremost, the facility must be safe and s...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: Traffic Incident Management (TIM)

Traffic Incident Management (TIM) is the planned and coordinated multidisciplinary process used to detect, respond, and clear traffic incidents as quickly as possible while protecting the safety of on...