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Legislative Alert: President Obama Releases Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Proposal

On March 4, 2014, President Obama released his proposed budget for the federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, which begins on October 1, 2014. The president’s $3.901 trillion budget request proposes $1.065 ...

Product Feature

Product Feature: New Twists on Familiar Safeguards for Schools

Since 1980, 137 school shootings have accounted for 297 fatalities in the United States, the majority of them children. During that time the number of school shooting incidents increased each decade.1...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Predictive Policing: Understanding and Applying Analytical Techniques to Prevent and Combat Crime

While predictive policing has seen widespread use in recent years, the field has lacked a comprehensive resource that assesses the most commonly used tools and helps departments determine which are mo...

Crime & Violence

Start by Believing: Changing Attitudes Toward Sexual Assault

Two stories—in two days—illustrated in heartbreaking relief the critical need for change in societal attitudes toward sexual assault. Law enforcement leaders can lead the way to effect this change...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Using CompStat to Manage a Police Budget

It is hard to believe that CompStat has been in existence for 20 years, but it is now a large part of the landscape for today’s police agencies. CompStat holds those in command positions accountable...

President's Message

President’s Message: We’ve Heard from You: 2013 Customer Satisfaction Survey

The membership of the IACP is the lifeblood of the association. Your voice and input matter to us, which is why we conducted a customer satisfaction survey to review the work of the association in 201...

Investigations

Colorado’s Cold Case Task Force: A Blueprint for Improving Cold Case Investigation and Developing Trust between Co-victims and Law Enforcement" displayText='ShareThis'>Share

Colorado’s Cold Case Task Force: A Blueprint for Improving Cold Case Investigation and Developing Trust between Co-victims and Law Enforcement

Unresolved or “cold case” homicides represent some of the most challenging cases for law enforcement to successfully solve and prosecute. Despite growing media attention and increasing public awar...

Technology

Targeted Analytical Policing System (T.A.P.S.): Improving Policing in New Castle County

New Castle County (NCC), which lies in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, is the most populated of the three counties in the state of Delaware, and the New Castle County Police Department (...