Margaret White, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Ad Index: January 2021

The advertisers in this issue can help equip your department with the most efficient tools available today! Always mention Police Chief when contacting our advertisers. AutoReturn 855.287.1220 ...

IACP Net Bulletin

IACPnet Bulletin: Reenvisioning the Role of Police

While the fundamental role of police to protect the communities they serve is a constant, how they fulfil this role changes based on the needs of those communities. Police leaders work in partnership ...

Recruitment & Personnel

Intelligence-Led Leadership Selection

Intelligence-led policing (ILP) has resulted in police operational decisions becoming increasingly data driven, and many communities are safer because police departments analyze incident data more eff...

Investigations

What Police Officers Need to Know About Palm Prints

For many years, the criminal justice community has relied on latent fingerprints to identify perpetrators of crimes. More recently, advancements in technology have allowed palm prints to also be used ...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Examining Violence Reduction Strategies

Despite aggregate reductions in violent crime, violent street crime continues to impact urban communities in the United States in various, significant ways. Recognizing this issue, the IACP/University...

President's Message

President’s Message: The Importance of Using Data to Tell Our Story

Every day, police agencies rely upon data to make tactical and operational decisions about how best to deploy resources and combat crime in their communities. These same data, when pulled together fro...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Animal Cruelty Hurts People Too

On January 1, 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began collecting information about crimes involving animal cruelty from law enforcement agencies that participate in the National Incident...

Crime & Violence

The Case for Crime Analysis

The policing profession is constantly adapting to a wide variety of changes. Some of these changes are considerable, such as the continued professionalization of the profession over the last 60 years....