Dani Gudakunst, Author at Police Chief Magazine

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The Cyber Beat Partner: Harnessing the Power of AI in Law Enforcement

Virtual dispatcher? That will never happen… or will it? The phrase “artificial intelligence” usually conjures up movie images of cyborgs taking over the Earth or supercomputers monitoring every ...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Solving the Conundrum of the “Clearly Established” Prong of Qualified Immunity

Having taken an oath to serve and protect, law enforcement officers are called upon to guard against those who would do harm. In fulfilling this oath, however, those officers face an omnipresent dange...

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President’s Message: Improving Law Enforcement’s Capabilities, Public Safety, and Communities Through Innovation

It has often been said that law enforcement is resistant to change. However, those of us leading the profession recognize that it is not resistance to change, but a drive to change in a measured, resp...

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Legislative Alert: Chief Will Johnson Testifies on Responses to Increase in Religious Hate Crimes

On May 2, 2017, Chief Will D. Johnson, chair of the IACP Human and Civil Rights Committee, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary in a hearing entitled Responses to the Increase i...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: The Use of Place-Based Policing Strategies to Reduce Violent Crime in Chicago Neighborhoods

Hot spots policing strategies have become a widely adopted innovations in law enforcement over the past 30 years. These strategies focus patrol resources on a small number of locations that account fo...

IACP Working for You

IACP Working for You: The Annual Training Conference on Drugs, Alcohol, and Impaired Driving

For 22 years, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) has partnered with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and various state highway safety offices to provide...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: Current Issues in Drug-Impaired Driving

The 2013-2014 National Roadside Study of Alcohol and Drug Use by Drivers revealed an encouraging trend of declining alcohol use by drivers. The data collected by this study, along with the overall dec...

Product Feature

Product Feature: Firearms Industry Catering to Law Enforcement Needs

There is evidence that firearms sales have slowed over the past several months in the United States. According to data from the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System, 2,433,092 backgr...