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Policing in Local Law Enforcement

Police technology must serve the community and advance the mission of community policing, not merely make internal processes more efficient. Community policing is most effective and most sustainable w...

Terrorism

Preserving History

Every day, thousands of people drive right past it, a plain-looking building nestled amongst other aviation-related structures on the west side of the Van Wyck entrance to John F. Kennedy Internationa...

Crime & Violence

Robbery and Violence Prevention in Small Retail Businesses

Police departments work with small businesses to seek methodologies to thwart crimes. In Oxnard, California, it was found that the most effective strategies to mitigate robberies and the resulting vio...

Technology

Sense-Enhancing Technology and the Future of Intelligence-Led Policing

In 2001, when the Supreme Court wrestled with law enforcement’s use of sense-enhancing technology in a 1992 arrest, the domestic war was focused on drugs, not terrorism. In a five to four vote, the ...

Investigations

The Convergence of Advances in Science, Technology, and Investigative Skills

On December 17, 1967, a hunter found human skeletal remains in a wooded area of Balsam Lake Provincial Park in Victoria County, Ontario, Canada. There was no evidence of clothing at the scene other th...

Traffic Safety

Highway Safety Initiatives: The Highway Safety Committee Promotes Traffic Safety, Management, and Enforcement

Within the committee structure of IACP, the Highway Safety Committee (HSC) is charged with developing proactive strategies to promote enhanced traffic safety, traffic management, and traffic enforceme...

President's Message

President’s Message: The Year in Review: October 2009

The last year has been both professionally and personally challenging, exciting, and very rewarding. The opportunity to serve as your president has been one of the highlights of my law enforcement car...

Education & Training

The Need for Mandatory Accreditation and Certification

The recent National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report, Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward, contains several controversial recommendations for U.S. law enforcement agenc...