April 2010

Policing with Muslim Communities in the Age of Terrorism

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), like many U.S. law enforcement agencies, recognizes that Muslim communities, whether in Somalia where extremists are radicalizing Americans to their cause or ...

Recruitment & Personnel

Selection Interviews: Understanding the Psychology of First Impressions

Selection interviews continue to be one of the most popular tools used by organizations to choose prospective candidates for entry-level positions and promotion. Because the evaluations that law enfor...

Recruitment & Personnel

Strategies to Improve Recruitment

The IACP, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), has released a new publication to assist agencies with their recruitment efforts....

Texting to 9-1-1 in Black Hawk County Consolidated Communications

owa’s Black Hawk County Consolidated Communications Center (BHCCC) broke new ground in 2009 in an effort to better serve its citizens. Realizing that there had been an increase in text messaging amo...

Education & Training

The Caruth Police Institute: A Comprehensive Approach to Staff and Leadership Development

On December 4, 2008, the Dallas Police Department (DPD) began a unique crime-fighting partnership with two local universities whose resources are helping the department to develop more effective polic...

Policy

Update on the Prison Rape Elimination Act

National standards released in June 2009 by the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (NPREC), pursuant to the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA), apply to police departments operating t...