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La edición de Police Chief de este mes aborda algunos de los roles no tradicionales que nuestros oficiales desempeñan en sus comunidades....
Author: Margaret White
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Autism. Williams syndrome. Alzheimer’s. Schizophrenia. These terms are often scary to any neurotypical police officer or layperson who has never personally encountered a person with one or more of t...
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The policing profession already faces many challenges in a typical year. However, it became clear in March 2020, as people across the globe encountered a worldwide pandemic, that the year 2020 would b...
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Kevin had been “involved” with the criminal justice system for his entire adult life. By the time he was 32, he had been incarcerated nine times for offenses ranging from shoplifting to larceny....
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Overdoses are ravaging the United States. Over the last two decades, more than 750,000 people have died as a result of a drug overdose, and in this same time, overdose deaths involving opioids have in...
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According to the most recent analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 in 54 children in the United States is on the autism spectrum. That’s up from the 1 in 68 diagnosed in 20...
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In 1999, I was a young patrol sergeant working in a new division. Late one evening, I responded to a supervisor request on a domestic violence call in which the suspect attempted to stab his wife with...
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As policing professionals, we are passionate problem solvers who recognize that the maintenance of public safety and order involves understanding the root causes of crime and not responding to the sym...