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Policy

Police Policy for Real-World Decisions

Just after midnight, a patrol sergeant monitors a vehicle pursuit moving from residential streets onto a divided roadway. Speeds are increasing. Traffic conditions are changing near an upcoming ...

Policy

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Strategic Policy Leadership

Effective police leadership sits at the crossroads of policy, law, and politics, where poorly drafted policies can have as much impact as poorly argued cases or poorly considered legislation. For tod...

Policy

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Strengthening Sovereignty Through Policy

Just after sunrise on a crisp fall morning in 2025, officers from the Catawba Nation Tribal Police Department (CNTPD) gathered around the hood of a patrol vehicle, sorting through the details of a mul...

Human & Civil Rights

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Dialogue to Drive Public Safety

When civil unrest swept across the United States in 2020, the scale and intensity of demonstrations rivaled anything seen in decades. Nearly every major city experienced conflict that strained relatio...

Technology

Uniformed police stand near a white mobile unit displaying a sign reading ‘Live Facial Recognition In Operation,’ as members of the public pass along a city street

Here, There, and Everywhere

The pace of adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in law enforcement continues to grow rapidly around the globe. This is particularly true of generative AI solutions. At the same time, th...

IACP

CJIS Security Policy Modernization

Chiefs, sheriffs, or other law enforcement executives responsible for an agency’s access to the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division’s systems and information and control of r...

Criminal Justice Reform

Preparing a Police Department for Reform

All organizations, whether public or private, need to evolve and improve over time. In policing, this evolution is often described as “reform,” whereby individual police departments steer their of...

Recruitment & Personnel

Finding Success from Within

Perhaps the expertise you are looking for is right in front of you. These are the words of advice researchers have distributed without hesitation following the multiyear effort exploring law enforcem...