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Chief’s Counsel: Balancing Training Innovations with Legal Standards

The author’s experience in litigation, evaluation of Consent Decrees, and in conducting operational studies of departments has shown that an agency’s “custom” is the most direct way to impose ...

Tech Talk

Tech Talk: AI Tools and Public Trust

Child sex trafficking crimes are being solved thanks to the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology advances. Designed to support law enforcement in sex traffickin...

Perspectives

Perspectives: Crime Trends

Since the turn of the century, technology has produced a transformation in criminal justice. Technology and related data have profoundly emerged as the targets of many crimes we have dubbed cybercrime...

Technology

2022 IACP Technology Conference Recap

After two years of virtual conferences, attendees and exhibitors were eager to be back in person at the IACP Technology Conference that took place May 24–26 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Attendees were ...

Technology

Law Enforcement in the Era of Deepfakes

“I think there is going to be a point where we can throw absolutely everything that we have at this, at these types of techniques, and there is still some question about whether it is authentic or n...

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Next Generation 911 (NG911) Primer

The first 911 call was made in Haleyville, Alabama, in 1968. The last half century has seen a communications revolution, yet most emergency communications centers (ECCs) still use operating protocols ...

Exposition

Exposition: May 2022

Police Chief keeps you on the cutting edge of law enforcement technology with monthly product announcements. Items about new or improved products are based on news releases supplied by manufacturers a...