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Research in Brief: Homicides of Law Enforcement Officers in the United States Are Associated with State Gun Ownership Levels

Intentional homicide is one of the top two causes of on-the-job deaths of law enforcement officers in the United States, second only to motor vehicle crashes. Despite preparation in the forms of train...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Supporting Injured Officers: A New Focus for the IACP Foundation

Kenneth Baribault, an officer with the Nassau County, New York, Police Department (pictured above), was nearing the end of his shift in the early morning hours of May 18, 2008, when he pulled over the...

Leadership

Ten Best Ways to Build a Quality Achievement: Work Culture in Law Enforcement Agencies

For several decades, organizational psychologists have studied the phenomenon known as a “work culture” in both the private and public sectors, especially with regards to organizational performanc...

Leadership

Three Question Management

A commercial airline passenger was intoxicated and would not comply with the flight attendant’s instructions to sit down and put on his seat belt. After several failed attempts, the flight attendant...

Legislative Alert

Legislative Alert: Updates on Addiction, Digital Security, and Email Privacy Legislation

On March 10, 2016, the U.S. Senate voted 94-1 to approve the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (S. 524). If also passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, this legislation will authorize fed...

Community-Police Engagement

Ideas & Insights: Community Policing Revisited

Recent events across the United States suggest that the relationship between police officers and some members of the community—in a number of jurisdictions—may be at a crossroads. Several high-pro...

Community-Police Engagement

Ideas & Insights: Reply to Community Policing Revisited: Implementing the Principles of Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy

Fundamental to community policing is the concept that the police and the public co-produce public safety through trust, legitimacy, information sharing—and above all—transparency. It’s also impe...

Youth

21st Century Youth-Focused Policing: Engaging Youth through the Six Pillars

The Final Report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing pointed out how a number of landmark events involving law enforcement responses in the United States have exposed “rifts in ...