Margaret White, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Waking Up to Fatigue-Related Well-Being Issues

There are many varied shift patterns employed within policing. In the UK, in particular, officers and staff don’t usually have the option to select a shift or rotation that works for them—those in...

Community-Police Engagement

Realizing the Future Purpose of Policing

The future of policing in the United States is bright. I say this knowing full well that U.S. policing faces significant challenges today and tomorrow. Advances in policing have made it so much bet...

Criminal Justice Reform

Perspectives on the Future of Policing

What does the future of policing look like? Is there a new technology on the horizon that will be a game changer? Is society evolving in a way that will change the role of policing? Is there a sea cha...

Technology

The Emerging Dominance of AI

Technology advances in the 21st century will have a profound impact on law enforcement and society. Robotics combined with artificial intelligence (AI) will challenge today’s conventional ideas a...

Community-Police Engagement

Getting Human Service Delivery Right

The successful police departments of the next decade will be those that have engaged their communities; human services partners; and most critically, their political leadership to improve the manner i...

Criminal Justice Reform

The Future of Policing Is in Our Shared Vision

Let’s start with something that we all can agree on—both the police and the community want safer neighborhoods. Safer schools. Safer highways. What we don’t always agree on is how to get ther...

Mental Health

The Future of Police Psychology

Police psychologists of the future will be force multipliers who will implement exponential force fitness. They will be true scientist-practitioners who can be holoported to any scene with unrestricte...

Community-Police Engagement

Protecting the Most Vulnerable

In the future, the steps needed to build public trust in policing will be collaboratively focused and will represent a distinctive organizational philosophy for many departments. In some respects, ...