David Teodosio at Police Chief Magazine

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From Crisis to Reform

Between 2010 and 2025, public order policing has undergone a profound—yet often unheralded—transformation. In some parts of Europe and the United States, the traditional logic of “crowd contro...

Criminal Justice Reform

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Ferguson Changed Policing. Living It Changed Me.

In August 2014, I was serving as a captain in the Forest Park Police Department in Metro Atlanta, Georgia. I had been in that role for over two years and was just beginning to find my footing and unde...

Criminal Justice Reform

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A City in Flames, A Nation in Crisis

On May 28, 2020, the Minneapolis, Minnesota, Police Department’s Third Precinct station was overrun and set ablaze. Two years later, I became the Minneapolis police chief and visited the abandone...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: SCOTUS Affirms Totality Standard in Use-of-Force Cases

On May 15, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Barnes v. Felix, fundamentally altering the legal evaluation of excessive force claims under the Fourth Amendment. The ruling reje...

Technology

Digital Shadows

Complex military operations have one point in common with large-scale drug trafficking enterprises: they rely on swift and secured communications. The massive development over the past 10 years of ...

Global Policing

Transatlantic Approaches to Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is a complicated issue, addressed via international treaty as well as national or state law. Despite differing national identities and values, U.S. and Austrian law enforcement both ...

Legislative Update

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Congress Returns: FY 26 Funding on Deck

September 12, 2025 Congress has returned from its August recess, and lawmakers now face a tight timeline to fund the federal government for fiscal year 2026, which begins on October 1. To avoi...

Terrorism

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Borderless Collaboration

As police leaders and officers around the globe know, transnational crime is of monumental importance in today’s criminal landscape. Drugs and their precursors originate from their source countries ...