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Officer Safety Corner: The Bulletproof Vest Partnership Program: Working to Save Officer Lives

Until the late 1960s, the use of body armor was not a common practice among law enforcement officers. Work initiated by the National Institute of Justice helped to develop new materials that could eff...

Leadership

Police Futuring – Is It in Your Future?

Strategic organizational forecasting through formalized police "futures units" is the next step in the evolution of modern law enforcement. For decades many businesses in private industry have utilize...

Investigations

Police Futuring—Is It in Your Future?

Strategic organizational forecasting through formalized police “futures units” is the next step in the evolution of modern law enforcement. For decades many businesses in private industry have ut...

Mass Casualty Attacks

Preparing for the Worst: Active Shooters in Our Schools—An International Perspective

Of the primary human threats to safety in schools—vandalism, bullying, fighting, sexual abuse, and rampage violence—rampage violence is by far the most deadly and the rarest. Yet over the past 15 ...

Product Update

Product Feature: Mobile Goes Beyond the Phone

The advent of smartphones has led to many benefits for savvy law enforcement and public safety professionals, just as it has in many other fields and areas of life. The ability to do more things autom...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: A Method for Psychophysiological Assessment of Acute Stress Induced by High-Pressure Law Enforcement Driving

In police work, when anxiety levels become high, attention is directed to threat-related sources of information. This may make it more difficult to pay attention to goal-directed information that is r...

Youth

The Effects of Active Shooter Resilience Training Programs on College Students’ Perceptions of Personal Safety

Public safety and higher education leaders have implemented a variety of strategies to develop more resilient communities to prevent or mitigate the harm that comes from targeted violence. These strat...

Community-Police Engagement

The Impact of School Resource Officers on Community-Based Policing

Effective school resource officer (SRO) programs recognize and utilize the special training and expertise law enforcement officers possess that is well suited to effectively protect and serve the scho...