Margaret White, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Introducing Problem-Based Learning

In the course of their work, police officers often encounter problems. Some may be standard for the conditions of service, while others need a concentration of efforts to solve them, carry more uncert...

Technology

IACP 2024 Technology Conference Recap

This year, the IACP welcomed attendees from across the globe to the 2024 Technology Conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, on May 21–23. The event brought together more than 1,000 attendees from a...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

From Evidence to Actionable Victim Engagement

It is not unusual for victims to find it difficult to engage with the police after experiencing an assault. Often, victims fear they will not be believed or that reporting the crime will not have any ...

Global Policing

Elite Crisis Response

For more than 40 years, the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) has trained for and responded to terrorist incidents, from the 1983 bombings of the U.S. embassy and Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, t...

Education & Training

A Training Approach to Use-of-Force Investigations

At most agencies, there is a specific process for the investigation of police use-of-force incidents. For many agencies, those investigations are initially reported to the field supervisor, then the r...

Policy

Public Order Policing

In 2020, the policing profession in the United States faced the daunting task of balancing public safety with preserving citizens’ rights to assemble and voice their concerns. The dynamic nature of ...

Technology

Drones in Tactical Crisis Response

Drones significantly impact policing during a tactical crisis response. In the past, any type of aerial reconnaissance or surveillance was only afforded to larger metropolitan police agencies that ope...

Mass Casualty Attacks

The Impact of Stress in Critical Incidents

With the complex diversity and level of skills necessary to effectively execute all that is required of today’s police officer, one might think the training would match that demand. Appropriate trai...