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Delivering the Message to Terrorists—The Boston Way

The twin bombings at the Boston Marathon and the manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers captivated the nation in the last weeks of April 2013. Nearly a dozen years after 9/11, a great U.S. city was once ag...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Cincinnati HAZARD: A Place-Based Traffic Enforcement and Violent Crime Strategy

In 2006, the Cincinnati, Ohio, Police Department developed and implemented its Crash Analysis Reduction Strategy (CARS), which reduced traffic crashes through a series of focused strategies that reduc...

Technology

Developing Policy on Using Social Media for Intelligence and Investigations

Law enforcement agencies need to be able to respond to criminals who are using technology for their criminal enterprises. Today, law enforcement agencies have numerous modern high-technology tools inc...

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Efforts Continue to Address Drugged Driving, But Is It Enough?

A growing body of research is confirming what law enforcement officers and traffic safety experts have suspected for years: that many licit, illicit, and over-the-counter drugs impair a driver’s abi...

Terrorism

Fighting Terrorism: International Models for Law Enforcement

For most U.S. citizens, terrorism became an issue of focus in the wake of the Al Qaeda attacks on September 11, 2001. However, for many countries around the world, terrorism has been an issue that the...

Investigations

Eyewitness Identification: An Update on What Chiefs Need to Know

The police properly view their role as detecting what crime has been committed and who, in fact, committed it and who, in fact, did not. The investigative stage may be controlled by legal rules but it...

President's Message

President’s Message: IACP: Get Connected—Get Involved

Over the last 120 years, the IACP has served as a leader in the law enforcement profession, striving each day to provide law enforcement executives around the world with the skills, knowledge, and too...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Has the Supreme Court Cleared the Air on K-9 Drug Sniffs? Two U.S. Supreme Court Cases on K-9 Drug Sniffs

Two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions involved the use of trained dogs to sniff for drugs in an effort to develop probable cause to conduct a search. In the first case, Harris, the Court decided tha...