Margaret White, Author at Police Chief Magazine

President’s Message: The Year Ahead (November 2020)

I remember standing on the U.S. East Coast on 9/11, watching the news of that horrific day unfold, and thinking to myself that the world had never seen anything like it—that it was too much; too dif...

Human & Civil Rights

Forced Criminality

The biggest human trafficking case in Utah history did not look like what anyone would have expected. As human trafficking awareness has risen across the United States and the globe, there are still b...

Tech Talk

Tech Talk: Rapid ID Comes Out of the Police Station and Into the Field

Rapid identification solutions have been on the market and playing a growing role in law enforcement for a decade or more. Although they’re widely used at police stations and central booking facilit...

Investigations

Hidden Crimes, Invisible Victims

Human traffickers prey on some of the most vulnerable members of society, exploiting them for compelled labor, services, or commercial sex, often through invisible schemes of psychological coercion t...

From the Director

From the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General: Supporting Law Enforcement’s Anti-Human Trafficking Work

Human trafficking is a global security threat that threatens the safety of communities. It is a massive criminal industry fronted by fraudulent businesses built on the slave labor of victims we pass e...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

The Metrics of Change

In October 2019, Uganda’s only designated human trafficking prosecutor was attempting, for the second time, to hold a German national accountable for trafficking children on a remote island on Lake ...

The Brief

The Brief: Public Transit Policing

The year is 2020, and everything you thought you knew just went out the window. The world is hit with a pandemic. There is civil unrest and political upheaval, the likes of which have not been experie...

Victim Services

Tackling the Many Facets of Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is a heinous crime that challenges law enforcement agencies operationally, organizationally, and structurally. The complexity of responding to and investigating human trafficking of...