Margaret White, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Officer Safety Corner: Saving More Officers’ Lives: 30 Years of Lessons Learned

As much as the law enforcement profession and its leaders strive to prevent the line-of-duty deaths of law enforcement officers, this worthy goal will never be fully achieved because the circumstances...

Recruitment & Personnel

IACP Through the Years: Women Police and Stress (1983)

Police chiefs from around the country often ask me various questions about women police. These questions often include: Why would any woman in her right mind choose a career in law enforcement? Why no...

Community-Police Engagement

Using Armored Vehicles for Emergency Rescues: Coral Spring’s Bearcat Team

When most people envision SWAT officers and armored police vehicles, they associate those images with major crimes, dangerous criminals, and violent riots. However, this article shows how one police d...

Victim Services

Overcoming Fear and Building Trust with Immigrant Communities and Crime Victims

One of the most intimidating tools abusers and traffickers of undocumented immigrants use is the threat of deportation. Abusers and other criminals use it to maintain control over their victims and ...

IACP

2004 Subject Index

Annual IACP Conference 2003 IACP Awards Presented at 110th Annual Conference, Jan: 38 Conference Preview, Aug: 24; Sep: 31; Oct: 54 How the Annual IACP Conference Helps: Stopping Domestic Violence in ...

Victim Services

Informing and Supporting Original Victims of Crime During Post-Conviction Exonerations

When a violent crime occurs, the crime survivor or victim’s family is forever altered. Broken pieces of former lives have scattered and disappeared and attempting to put things back together the way...

IACP

Police Week 2018

Each year during Police Week, communities across the United States hold memorial services in remembrance of police officers who have made the supreme sacrifice for their communities. Also during this ...

Investigations

Healing the Wounds of Hatred

It isn’t often that a hate-driven incident creates an opportunity for positive community building and fosters unity and forgiveness between the suspect and victims. However, for the city of Meriden,...