matrixsuperadmin, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Building Better Early Intervention Systems

A few years ago, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, Police Department?s (CMPD?s) Early Intervention System (EIS) flagged an officer who had been involved in an unusually high number of inciden...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Employing Near-Repeat Patterns for Community-Driven Crime Prevention

A major challenge of crime prevention in policing is the need to ?anticipate the place and time of occurrence.?1 Modern policing tactics have focused on the need to better focus limited resources with...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Fatal Shootings by U.S. Police Officers in 2015: A Bird’s Eye View

Do the police exhibit bias when deciding to shoot? Experimental studies have yielded mixed evidence, and, until last year, there was no reliable national-level data pertaining to citizens killed by po...

From the Director

From The Director: NIJ’s Role in Strengthening Policing Science

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the research, development, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, has a long history of supporting high-quality, high-impact research in policin...

Technology

Knowledge Is Power – Using Technology to Gain Forensic Intelligence

Forensic intelligence can be derived from the accurate and timely processing of forensic case data across numerous investigations or various disciplines. The results of forensic analysis can be used j...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: VINCIBLE – Removing the IN from US

A platitude is a remark or statement that has some moral content, but it is used so often that it is no longer thoughtful. With that in mind, here is this month?s platitude: police agencies must reduc...

Product Feature

Product Feature: Tools for Better Recruiting, Testing, and Screening of Police Applicants

With police departments increasingly falling under the public microscope, it is extremely important for police chiefs and hiring managers to be certain they are hiring the right men and women to serve...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Lessons Learned From an Evaluation of Cross-Border Task Force Efforts

Criminal activity, especially when related to drugs and violence, often crosses jurisdictional boundaries, and studies of strategies targeting these issues have shown that solutions involving interage...