Recruitment & Personnel
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One need only turn on the nightly news to understand that law enforcement across the United States is facing some unprecedented challenges. Those challenges, including the need to rebuild community tr...
Victim Services
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How many hate crimes have occurred in the community during the past year? Many sheriffs or chiefs of police would probably say that there have been few, if any, in their communities. However, they wo...
Victim Services
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Law enforcement officers routinely respond to chaotic situations and bring order. But, when given the assignment to deliver news of the death of a loved one, officers enter into an orderly situation a...
Leadership
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For several decades, organizational psychologists have studied the phenomenon known as a “work culture” in both the private and public sectors, especially with regards to organizational performanc...
Criminal Justice Reform
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  Connecticut is one of the smallest states in the United States—it can be driven end-to-end in two hours. In the late 1960s, Connecticut did away with counties, replacing them with a centraliz...
Global Policing
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The world population took 50,000 years to reach 1 billion people. Two hundred years after that 19th-century milestone, Earth has more than 7 billion human inhabitants.1 Huge megapolises are inhabited ...
Investigations
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Traditionally, the art of profiling applies to criminal activities that are visible to the eye and observation of the investigator. In fact, profiling involves the analysis of personal characteristics...
Investigations
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Despite a thief donning two pairs of pants, a mask, and gloves when he robbed a jewelry store at gunpoint, he was unable to hide how he walked. Cameras in the store recorded the thief, and, by compari...