Cybercrime
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Unlike other, more conventional crimes, identity theft is difficult to prevent because it is most often done electronically, either on the Internet or credit card transactions. It is not a traditional...
Global Policing
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The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security is one of America's most potent assets in the fight against terrorism and crime. In addition to serving as the security and law enforcement a...
Community-Police Engagement
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In 1998, members of the Aurora Police Department began developing a strategic plan for the department’s future. The strategic planning committee was tasked with developing a plan to increase the...
Crime & Violence
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Quality-of-life crimes and the conditions that they create can challenge law enforcement. Graffiti vandalism is one such quality-of-life crime, and the New York Police Department (NYPD) undertook a st...
Crime & Violence
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The National Violence Against Women Advisory Group is composed of law enforcement executives, judges, prosecutors, and advocates, all of whom came together for the two-day meeting in Minneapolis....
Community-Police Engagement
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A long-standing high school tradition in many communities that accompanies homecoming week and the homecoming dance is late-night house rolling, which involves secretly covering someone’s house and ...
Drugs & Alcohol
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RxPatrol, or Rx Pattern Analysis Tracking Robberies and Other Losses, is a Web-based clearinghouse of information regarding crimes involving theft and other losses of prescription drugs that occur at ...
Global Policing
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With ingenuity, $25,000 can go a long way. For Sergeant Albert Benally, the deputy sheriff in charge of inspections in the McKinley County, New Mexico, Sheriff's Department, a $25,000 grant in 1996 fr...