Leadership
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A crisis is the forge in which leadership is made, strengthened, and sharpened. People organize themselves and form organizations in response to conflicts in society. These organizations provide stabi...
Leadership
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As leaders in the ever-evolving field of policing, police commanders have a duty and responsibility to share lessons learned with their peers. Such lessons can come from a variety of topics, and those...
Ethics
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Recent events have focused attention on police reform and led to public demands to “rethink” how police services are provided. The enormous amount of attention focused on restraint techniques, qua...
Technology
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The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis, wrote “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric l...
Recruitment & Personnel
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Staffing issues have plagued police executives across the globe in their search to fill vacancies with qualified applicants capable of dealing with the complex realities of modern policing. These chal...
Victim Services
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In 2016, the Casper, Wyoming; Chattanooga, Tennessee; and Saginaw, Michigan, Police Departments were selected as demonstration sites for the Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Victims (ELERV) initi...
Recruitment & Personnel
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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
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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 ...