Margaret White, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Four Guiding Principles for Successful Leadership for the Future of Policing

After two years plus of the COVID-19 pandemic, months of continued protests triggered by the murder of George Floyd, a new era of policing reforms ushered in by city and state governments, and perhaps...

Recruitment & Personnel

Expanding the Role of Civilians in Policing

Almost 10 years ago, the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department created several crime research specialist (CRS) positions, filled by civilians, for the purpose of providing investigative and o...

Drugs & Alcohol

UK Drug Line Suppression

County lines is a form of criminal exploitation that has come to prominence in the UK in the last decade due to increased media coverage and portrayals of the gangs involved in film and television. ...

Recruitment & Personnel

Linking the Workforce Crisis, Crime, and Response Time

While U.S. policing has been experiencing a workforce shortage for decades, the challenge gained further attention in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing civil unrest and highly ...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

The Next Frontier

Over the past half-century, the role of police has expanded greatly, resulting in law enforcement officers being relied on as the default responders for many of society’s deep-rooted problems, inclu...

Human & Civil Rights

Sounding the Alarm

In a disturbing trend, hate crimes have been on the rise in recent years in the United States. When a person is targeted for a crime because of actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, na...

Technology

Better Data for Evolving Crime Trends

For 90 years, the primary source of information on crimes recorded by U.S. law enforcement was the Summary Reporting System (SRS) of the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. A central stren...

Community-Police Engagement

Drawing Lessons from Policing’s Past

While much has changed in the 199 years since Sir Robert Peel set out to establish the world’s first full-time police force, one critical aspect has not—the issue of opposition. In Peel’s case, ...