Margaret White, Author at Police Chief Magazine

IACP Working For You: Identifying and Preventing Gender Bias in Law Enforcement Response to Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Stalking

The crimes of sexual assault and domestic violence are drastically underreported. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Bureau of Justice Statistics report, Criminal Victimization, 2011, only...

The Dispatch

The Dispatch – March 2017

Police Chief knows that many of the best ideas and insights come from IACP members who serve their communities every day. The Dispatch is an opportunity for members and other readers to share their w...

Community-Police Engagement

Encouraging Crime Reporting by Immigrants

Domestic violence is an underreported crime. Victims are hesitant to report for a variety of reasons including fear of reprisal by the perpetrator, shame, and worry that no one will believe them. The ...

Ethics

What Happened to Public Trust? An Examination of Outcome-Based Strategies to Enhance Ethical Policing

In Santa Ana, California, police served a search warrant on a marijuana dispensary that was operating improperly. After the business had been cleared of patrons and workers, a video surveillance syste...

Cybercrime

The New Volume Demand: Keeping Pace with Vulnerability through Culture Change

Law enforcement in the United Kingdom is experiencing many changes and challenges, both in terms of the demands placed on policing and law enforcement and in the complexity of providing these services...

Community-Police Engagement

Ideas & Insights, Part 1: Police Culture in the 21st Century

The importance of police culture is widely recognized—the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing noted that “[o]rganizational culture eats policy for lunch” and “[b]ehavior is more ...

Global Policing

The Strategic Guidance Framework: A Global Strategic Impact for Law Enforcement

In a world touched by violence, crime, and conflict, the role of civilian police as a function of the international community’s peacekeeping strategies has evolved. Once deployed as mainly observers...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: Working to Eliminate Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Speaking at the IACP 2016 Annual Conference and Exposition before an audience of sheriffs, police chiefs, and agency commanders from around the world, Sheriff Leon Lott of the Richland County, South C...