Margaret White, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Informer—May 2019

While fatigue is not exclusive to law enforcement, it is particularly significant due to the nature of the job. Officers respond to calls for service and emergencies, patrol the community, handle comp...

Products & Services

2019 Buyers’ Guide: Directory

The annual Police Chief Buyers’ Guide is the most important tool available to law enforcement executives putting together their budgets. This Directory supplies the complete mailing addresses, as ...

Products & Services

2019 Buyers’ Guide: Products & Services

The annual Police Chief Buyers’ Guide is the most important tool available to law enforcement executives putting together their budgets, and the only buyers’ guide supported by more than a century...

Community-Police Engagement

The Play’s the Thing: A Police Chief and a Theatre Professor Join Forces to Confront Bias in Police Departments

Police Chief David Kurz has given a great deal of thought to an incident he was made aware of earlier in his career. A police officer was on a construction detail when a car with four, young African ...

Crime & Violence

Law and Policy Considerations in Response to Hate Crimes

The term “hate crime” has become a familiar component of everyday discourse. The public is routinely confronted with media coverage of incidents involving potential criminal actions that appear t...

Spotlight

Bend Don’t Break: A Podcast Shares Stories of Police Officers Overcoming Adversity

When Delta Police Department’s Chief Neil Dubord approached Constable Aaron Hill about sharing his lessons learned in resiliency with his fellow officers, Cst. Hill knew he wanted to do something in...

Policy

The Importance and Structure of a Written Hate Crime Policy

The increase of reported hate crimes in FBI data, now for a third straight year, demonstrates clearly the continued importance of law enforcement agencies having a specific plan in place for respondi...