Sydney Wedbush, Author at Police Chief Magazine

Changing Times; Changing Strategies: One Agency’s Experience with Innovative Recruitment

For a number of years, the Winston-Salem Police Department, a North Carolina law enforcement agency of 560 sworn officers, easily filled its police academy with 30–40 recruits from diverse backgroun...

Recruitment & Personnel

The NOBLE Mentoring Potential CEOs Program: A Process to Develop Chiefs of Police

The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) established a mentoring program for aspiring chief executive officers (CEOs) in July 2006 called the Mentoring Potential Chief Exe...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Are You Ready? NIBRS for Large Cities

Thousands of U.S. law enforcement agencies participate in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program via the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), but many agencies still use the Su...

Recruitment & Personnel

Police Personnel Retention Challenges: Literature Review and Recommendations

The challenge of recruiting and hiring quality personnel has emerged as a critical problem for today’s law enforcement agencies.1 The roots of the current law enforcement officer recruitment movemen...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Carpenter v. United States: Digital Privacy in the 21st Century

The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 22, 2018, decision in Carpenter v. United States held that, before compelling a wireless carrier to turn over a subscriber’s cell-site location information (CSLI), th...

Recruitment & Personnel

Transforming Law Enforcement by Changing the Face of Policing

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, women compose just 12.7 percent of all sworn law enforcement officers in the United States—15.5 percent of sworn personnel in federal law enforcement, 13...

Recruitment & Personnel

The Right Person for the Right Position: Changing Hiring Practices to Meet 21st Century Demands

Finding the right person for the right position in a law enforcement agency is a challenge every police executive encounters on a regular basis. Police chiefs across the globe share the frustration of...

President's Message

President’s Message: Leadership and Law Enforcement Accountability

As many of us are well aware, leaders in law enforcement wear many hats. We are social workers, public information officers, teachers, accountants, personnel managers, and more—and often all of thes...