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Changing Law Enforcement Culture One Deputy at a Time with LASD-CIT: Is that Crisis Intervention Training or Changing Inherent Thinking? Or Both?

Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) is a model law enforcement mental health collaboration program that is believed to benefit patrol personnel in their encounters with individuals experiencing a psych...

IACP Working for You

IACP Working for You: Putting the “I” in IACP

The IACP is the longest-standing and largest law enforcement leadership professional organization in the world. It was started in 1893 by a group of approximately 50 police chiefs who met to share ide...

Education & Training

Procedural Justice: A Training Model for Organizational-Level Change

In recent years, procedural justice has been heralded as a critical strategy for building trust and legitimacy in communities and within law enforcement organizations. Procedural justice speaks to the...

Criminal Justice Reform

Deter Unconstitutional Policing: Reinstitute the Noble Cause

Character matters. Image, in policing, matters. There is no denying that the U.S. police profession has taken some major image hits from the Rodney King incident; the inception of cellphone video c...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Using Heart Rate Monitors in Law Enforcement Training

Although law enforcement officers are as proactive as possible, the very nature of the job often requires them to be reactionary. Officers must be able to perform and make split-second decisions “in...

Education & Training

Procedural Justice Training: The Norfolk Model with a Focus on Race Relations

There is an expanse of the literature suggesting that procedural justice plays a significant role in influencing the perception of police legitimacy in the eyes of citizens. It has become increasingly...

IACP Working for You

IACP Working for You: Forging Ahead: IACP’s Leadership Course for Women in Law Enforcement

Women in law enforcement face a myriad of challenges and barriers as they rise in the ranks. When serving in a male-dominated profession such as law enforcement, women often find tremendous value in t...

The Dispatch

The Dispatch: November 2017

Police Chief knows that many of the best ideas and insights come from IACP members who serve their communities every day. The Dispatch is an opportunity for members and other readers to share their w...