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Securing the Big Game: Emerging Technologies for Event Security

Usually, major sporting events occur without incident—and that’s no accident. Security for these events tends to involve long-range planning by a wide array of agencies working together to provide...

Technology Talk

Technology Talk: Protecting Children through Collaboration

Finding out that a child has been abducted or abused is one of the most traumatizing moments for a family, their community, and its police agency. To prevent this, we have developed sophisticated orga...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Harmonizing Police Technology Acquisitions with Policing Strategy

For police agencies, a major technology acquisition can be a change agent that elevates operations while building trust within communities. But when police technology choices are not sufficiently inte...

Investigations

Turning the Tables: Intelligent Video Analytics in 21st Century Policing

Take a moment to imagine what the future could hold: It is 2:00 a.m. in Modesto, California. Among hundreds of video feeds, filtering into the Modesto Police Department’s real-time crime center, one...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Assessing the Effectiveness of Automatic License Plate Readers

Although the evidence-based policing movement has gained traction, many of the policies and practices U.S. law enforcement employ are still based on dogma and tradition, rather than research. As a res...

Technology Talk

Technology Talk: Improving Crime Investigations with License Plate Recognition Technology

These days, many law enforcement officials are less worried about “broken windows” perpetuating small delinquencies and more concerned with detecting and preventing the serious crimes associated w...

Technology

Coming Out of the Dark

The modern, digitally connected world has created enormous benefits for individual’s business and personal lives. People have the opportunity to connect for commercial and social reasons more easily...