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Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Stop-and-Identify Laws

The officer in this case was responding to a caller who reported seeing an assault inside a truck traveling down the road. Police located the truck, which had by then pulled off the road. A man, Larry...

Drugs & Alcohol

Enlisting Community Help in the Investigation of Methamphetamine Laboratories

Methamphetamine is an insidious and dangerous drug that causes severe addictive behavior and physical and psychological damage to its victims. The use and manufacture of methamphetamine, or meth, has ...

Line of Duty Deaths

Line of Duty Deaths: August 2004

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IACP

IACP News: September 2004

Police Professionals Mentor Iraqis at the U.S. Embassy Office in Basra, Iraq First row, left to right: Steve Sweet (Detroit Police Department); Bev Alexander (Blytheville, Arkansas, Police Department)...

Legislative Alert

Legislative Alert: FCC Approves the Consensus Plan

On Thursday, July 8, the Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved the IACP-supported Consensus Plan (www.projectconsesus.org), which seeks to eliminate radio interference in the 800-mega...

Drugs & Alcohol

From The Administrator: Marijuana: The Myths Are Killing Us

When 14-year-old Irma Perez of Belmont, California, took a single ecstasy pill one evening last April, she had no idea she would become one of the 26,000 people who die every year from drugs. Irma too...

Traffic Safety

Maintaining Traffic Patrols in the Face of Rising Energy Costs

Not since the oil embargo of several decades ago has U.S. law enforcement faced such a serious challenge from rising petroleum costs. The price of gasoline at the retail pumps has risen above $2 per g...