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Research in Brief: The Challenge and Promise of Using Community Policing Strategies to Prevent Violent Extremism

Five years ago, the White House issued a strategy calling for the development of partnerships between police and communities as the key element of an effort to counter violent extremism (CVE) in the U...

Community-Police Engagement

The Use of Social Media to Enhance Community Policing in Taiwan

rom the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, to the riots in Baltimore, Maryland, in recent years, clashes between police and protesters have undermined trust between the two groups and have had negative imp...

Traffic Safety

Traffic Safety Innovations: How Agencies Use the National Law Enforcement Challenge to Zero In on Traffic Safety Issues

Sadly, crashes involving drivers who fail to obey traffic laws for speeding, distracted driving, impaired driving, and other dangerous behaviors on the roads claim lives every day. The National Highwa...

Legislative Alert

Legislative Alert: U.S. Congress Appropriations Update; POLICE Act Passes Senate

Both the U.S. House and Senate Committees on Appropriations have advanced their Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bills. Both of these bills have yet to go to the House o...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Armstrong v. Village of Pinehurst: Training and Policy Implications for Police

Armstrong v. Village of Pinehurst demonstrates the intense scrutiny that many courts take when considering claims of unreasonable force against persons with mental illness. Ronald Armstrong had been d...

Mass Casualty Attacks

50 Years After the UT Tower Attack: Lessons for Law Officers Remain Timely as Ever

It’s been nearly 50 years since former Austin, Texas, Police Department (APD) officers Ramiro Martinez and Houston McCoy confronted and stopped the sniper who was killing people from the University ...

Recruitment & Personnel

A Crisis Facing Law Enforcement: Recruiting in the 21st Century

One need only turn on the nightly news to understand that law enforcement across the United States is facing some unprecedented challenges. Those challenges, including the need to rebuild community tr...

Mental Health

A Proactive, Collaborative Approach to Community Mental Health: The Hurst, Euless, and Bedford (HEB) Model

Police departments face numerous challenges every day in their officers? interactions with persons with mental illness. These encounters are on the rise, so departments everywhere are trying to develo...