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Technology Talk: Improving Crime Investigations with License Plate Recognition Technology

These days, many law enforcement officials are less worried about “broken windows” perpetuating small delinquencies and more concerned with detecting and preventing the serious crimes associated w...

Product Feature

Product Feature: Records Management Solutions to Improve Transparency and Reduce Liability

With public scrutiny of law enforcement agencies at a heightened level, documentation is gaining importance. At the same time, there are massive new software capabilities for organizing information, a...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: Responder Safety Begins with Crash Data

From a safety standpoint, understanding when, where, and why secondary crashes occur has the potential to alter on-scene actions to help prevent those events. Similarly, identifying responder struck b...

Legislative Alert

Legislative Alert: U.S. President Proposes Fiscal Year 2019 Budget

On February 12, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a proposed budget of $4.4 trillion for federal fiscal year (FY) 2019, which begins on October 1, 2018. The president’s proposed FY 2019 bud...

Education & Training

Safe at Home

The decision to develop a state-of-the-art facility to train police officers, firefighters, and EMT personnel is among the most critical that leaders in any community can make and conversations about ...

Technology

Coming Out of the Dark

The modern, digitally connected world has created enormous benefits for individual’s business and personal lives. People have the opportunity to connect for commercial and social reasons more easily...

Investigations

Booking Station Hits: Arrestee Rapid DNA Analysis, Enrollment, and CODIS Hits

What if law enforcement could determine during booking if the arrestee being fingerprinted and photographed matched DNA evidence left 10 years ago at a murder scene hundreds of miles away in another s...