Margaret White, Author at Police Chief Magazine

IACP 2022 Preview

The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Annual Conference and Exposition is the largest and most important law enforcement event of the year—more than 16,000 public safety professi...

Criminal Justice Reform

Integrating Police Reform without Sacrificing Community Safety

On July 19, 2015, a campus police officer from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, Police Division (UCPD) shot and killed an unarmed black male motorist, Samuel DuBose, who had been stopped for a miss...

Mental Health

The Elusive Nature of Mental Health Data

Three colleagues—a criminologist, a crime analyst, and a cop—meet at a bar to discuss a recent proposal in city council that would reallocate a large portion of the police department’s budget to...

Index to Advertisers

Ad Index: August 2022

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Terrorism

The Conundrum of Domestic Violent Extremism

Domestic violent extremism (DVE) is an enigma in 21st century society. On the one hand, there are the traditional historical suspects such as nihilistic terrorists, anarchists, radical fanatics, insur...

Terrorism

Partners in Prevention

Institutes of higher education (IHEs) are valuable partners in law enforcement’s shared strategy to understand and deter domestic terrorism. Those who commit acts of terrorism are often young, educa...

Human & Civil Rights

Interview Considerations–Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is a highly prevalent neurodevelopmental disorder that has significant implications for the criminal justice system. Caused by prenatal exposure to alcohol, FASD...