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Engaging the Community to Enhance ALPR Strategy

Police departments around the globe have embraced automated license plate reader (ALPR) systems to develop leads in investigations and intercept criminals. These systems scan and record images of lice...

Technology

Fostering Positive Public-Private Partnerships

In October 2019, Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett and then-Chief of the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, Bryan Roach, kicked off a new initiative to help keep the residents of Indianapolis s...

Exposition

Exposition: June 2020

Stay up to date on new products and advances in technology to ensure your officers are equipped with the tools they need. June’s Exposition includes items on a protective mask kit; a handcuff key aw...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: Automated Vehicles and State Law Enforcement Summit

Automated vehicle technologies are increasingly more prevalent on the roadways. From automatic emergency braking and automatic parallel parking to fully autonomous technologies that allow a vehicle to...

Tech Talk

Tech Talk: A Quick Guide on Mobile Drone Detection

The drone—a double-edged sword. The eerie thing about that phrase in this context is the Central Intelligence Agency has actually created and used a missile with sword-like blades for highly accurat...

Legal

The Long and Winding Road: Understanding Legal Trends for Evaluating Emerging Technologies

The legal landscape concerning U.S. law enforcement’s use of a range of differing developing technologies can best be characterized as a long and winding road. Unlike many nations that have codified...

Technology

The Last Telecommunicator Has Been Born

Futurists have begun to offer the prospect that the last people to be employed in certain professions have already been born. Law enforcement agencies attempting to address skyrocketing employee costs...