Dani Gudakunst, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Deflection: A Powerful Crime-Fighting Tool That Improves Community Relations

Whether individuals work in urban, suburban, or rural communities, law enforcement officers invariably encounter the impact of drug use and mental illness. These impacts range from disruptive behavior...

Policy

Forward Momentum: Examples from the Advancing 21st Century Policing Initiative

Tremendous changes within the field of law enforcement have taken place over the last several years. When the U.S. Department of Justice released the Final Report of the President’s Task Force on 21...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: “Legal” or Not, Peace Officers Cannot Smoke Marijuana

At the end of 2016, approximately 28 U.S. states and the District of Columbia had decriminalized marijuana for medical purposes, recreational purposes, or both. Each state’s laws vary to significan...

Community-Police Engagement

Building Solid Community-Police Relationships Through Community Policing Promising Practices From the Field

For decades, the argument has been made that one of the surest ways to build positive, lasting community-police relationships is through an organizational commitment to community policing.1 The IACP h...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: Taking Care of Your Own: Sustaining a Culture of Crash Prevention Efforts in Law Enforcement

Each day in the lives of local and international law enforcement professionals requires balancing officer safety concerns with serving and protecting citizens and communities. It’s no secret that la...

Legislative Alert

Legislative Alert: IACP President Testifies on Mental Health Care and Law Enforcement’s Role

On February 15, 2017, IACP President Donald W. De Lucca testified before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies’ Hearing on ...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Leveraging Foot Patrol to Strengthen Community-Police Relations

In 2016, the Police Foundation examined how five U.S. law enforcement agencies have returned to a policing tradition—foot patrol—to engage and build relationships with their communities. The study...

Technology

Recent Improvements to the FBI’s National Data Exchange (N DEx)

Much has happened at the N-DEx Program Office since the 2013 Police Chief article featuring the N‑DEx system.1 As the United States’ premier no-cost criminal justice information sharing system, N-...