David Teodosio at Police Chief Magazine

A Bustling City Intersection Captured From Above With Pedestrians Crossing in Multiple Directions

Drive Without Alcohol

Mexico, like many developing nations, faces significant challenges in terms of road safety. Every year, thousands of people lose their lives or are seriously injured in traffic crashes. Mexico City (C...

Traffic Safety

State Trooper car involved in a head on collision with the hood thrown open

Managing an Epidemic of Wrong-Way Drivers

In the early morning of December 17, 2024, Trooper Carlos Rios-Redd was on a routine graveyard shift, unaware that the next call for service would significantly impact many lives, including his own. W...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: A DRE’s Perspective

For four decades, the Drug Evaluation and Classification Program, under the direction of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the International Association of Chief’s of Police, ha...

Tech Talk

Tech Talk: Multilayered Police Event Security

Unmanned aerial systems (UAS), more commonly known as “drones,” are both affordable and accessible—a dangerous combination for malicious actors who want to wreak havoc. While no one wants to thi...

Focus on Officer Wellness

Focus on Officer Wellness: Night Shift Survivors or Thrivers?

The existing body of research on police officers working the midnight shift is grim. But the night shift isn’t going anywhere. So, rather than belaboring the well-known challenges of shift w...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Street Takeovers

The image is familiar. A crowd is gathered, yelling and forming a circle around an intersection. Mere feet away, vehicles slide, smoke, and spin, accelerating in a circle at a high rate of speed. Pass...

Community-Police Engagement

Reaching the Right Audience

For police leaders, public safety should always be top of mind, including when it comes to critical messaging—and who should receive those messages. If the public is not the audience for communicati...

Criminal Justice Reform

Preparing a Police Department for Reform

All organizations, whether public or private, need to evolve and improve over time. In policing, this evolution is often described as “reform,” whereby individual police departments steer their of...