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Suicide Loss First Aid: How Police Officers Can Assist Suicide Survivors

There are approximately 40,000 reported suicides yearly in the United States, and the number of these deaths has increased in recent years.1 Police officers have contact with almost every suicide vict...

Education & Training

The 85 Percent Rule: Effective Outcome-Based Instruction

Congratulations to the many educators who have begun the shift from the traditional instructor-centered teaching style to a proven practice that acknowledges the experiential and cognitive worth of st...

Technology

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The ATF iTrafficking Program: Integration of Firearms Trace/Ballistic Data into Fusion Center Intelligence Sharing

In December 2010, the Bureau of Justice Assistance in the U.S. Department of Justice awarded a grant to the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) to examine the impact of the Bureau of ...

Investigations

The ATF National Response Team—Responding to Fires and Explosions

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) National Response Team (NRT), created in 1978, responds to large-scale fire and explosives incidents of federal interest that affect inter...

Technology

3-D Printing: The Potential Implications and Challenges for Law Enforcement

Gene Roddenberry introduced Star Trek fans to a device called a replicator in Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987. Many will remember Captain Picard walking to a wall in his stateroom on the starsh...

Technology Talk

Technology Talk: A Kodak Moment for Law Enforcement: Using DNA Blueprints to Build Facial Composites

The use of Deoxyribonucleic acid, better known as DNA, recently crossed a new threshold in suspect and victim identification. Its use as a crime-fighting tool is likely to increase exponentially by pr...

Community-Police Engagement

Bystander Intervention: Options for Campus Involvement in Crime Prevention

In order to effectively and consistently reduce crime within any given community, a culture of intolerance of crime must be created among community members. While there are multiple components necessa...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Showing Incident Video to Police Officers Under Investigation—A Best Practice Approach

With the proliferation of closed-circuit television (CCTV), “citizen journalists” with smartphones, and police dash-mounted or body-worn video cameras, the likelihood of police-involved incidents ...