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Technology Talk: License Plate Readers in San Diego County

Sound like a movie? Events like this one play out with some regularity in San Diego County; local agencies have recovered numerous stolen vehicles and apprehended numerous suspects. This scenar...

Silence Is Golden: The Golden Police Department’s Vehicle Noise Reduction Strategy

Golden, Colorado: By the Numbers 9.01 Square miles 14 Miles from Denver 32.8 Median age 42 Sworn officers 17,178 Population Source: http://www.city-data.com/city/Golden-Colorado.html he city of Golden...

2009 BUYERS’ GUIDE

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Legal

Legislative Alert: U.S. President Signs Bill Containing $4 Billion in Funds for State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies

In mid-February, U.S. president Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a piece of legislation aimed at stimulating the U.S. economy. Included in this bill is $4 billion to sup...

Products and Services

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Terrorism

Weapons of Mass Effect

The newest challenge facing the law enforcement profession is unlike any other it has seen before. Incident planning and event intelligence in conventional times were straightforward. The local crimin...

Sustaining a Good Trend

Across the United States, traffic safety news is good. In 2007, traffic fatalities fell to 41,059, the lowest since 1994. When measured by fatality rate per mile traveled, the rate is the lowest on re...

Securing the Cities: Agencies Working Together to Detect Dangerous Radiological Materials

IMGXYZ2325IMGZYX On September 27, 2006, the SCPD conducted a full-scale radiation detection exercise funded by New York State to test the capabilities of the department’s Preventive Radiation Detect...