Margaret White, Author at Police Chief Magazine

NDI: Tracking Interstate Movement of Decertified Police Officers

All professions, even those with selective recruiting processes and rigorous hiring standards such as law enforcement, are required to deal with misconduct from a member of their field at some time. I...

Recruitment & Personnel

Recruiting for Resiliency

The last few years of high-profile crises involving law enforcement have demonstrated the need for resilient police officers. Officers who lack resiliency are more prone to react to situations in an u...

Index to Advertisers

Index to Advertisers: September 2018

The advertisers in this issue can help equip your department with the most efficient tools available today!...

Cybercrime

The Digital Alleyway: Why the Dark Web Cannot Be Ignored

The world is an interconnected society, with information traveling at the speed of electrons.1 Over 40 percent of the world population is connected to the Internet—nearly 3.7 billion people—making...

Investigations

Project VIC: Helping to Identify and Rescue Children from Sexual Exploitation

The most important cases that a law enforcement agency can investigate might well be those involving the sexual abuse or exploitation of a child. Internet crimes against children have exploded over th...

Cybercrime

Cybersecurity Leadership for Today’s Law Enforcement Executive: Two Strategic Issues

Today’s law enforcement leaders are regularly exposed to the multilevel impact of strategic cyberthreats. Daily news media coverage reports cyberattack incidents impacting both private and public se...

President's Message

President’s Message: Equipping for the Reality We Face: Addressing Community and Media Backlash

Although some of the rhetoric around the “militarization of police” has quieted down, I still catch rumblings, observe media coverage, and hear from our members that they cannot seem to shake the ...

Technology

The FBI’s NIBRS Transition: Questions and Answers

On January 1, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will retire the Summary Reporting System (SRS), the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s longtime crime data collection system. There...