August 2010

117th Annual IACP Conference—Orlando, Florida

This Insider’s Guide provides useful information and tips for planning your conference experience. To remain updated about the events at the conference, visit the IACP 2010 website...

Chief's Counsel

Police Department May Read Text Messages Sent on Agency-Issued Pagers: City of Ontario, California, et al. v. Jeff Quon et al.

In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Ontario, California, Police Department did not violate Sergeant Jeff Quon’s privacy rights when the department read text messages sent o...

President's Message

President’s Message: Report from the Laredo, Texas, Summit

For decades, the safety of the public in communities along the southwestern border of the United States has been threatened by violence; the work of criminal organizations; and the enormous flow of dr...

Leadership

Responding to the Economic Downturn

Since 2008, the United States has witnessed an economic downturn that has had a marked impact on the lives of the citizens across the country, and especially in the Las Vegas, Nevada, community. The s...

Crime & Violence

Stopping Random Gunfire in Phoenix

Faced with a growing epidemic of random celebration gunfire during holidays, the Phoenix Police Department in Phoenix, Arizona, said, “Enough is enough,” and began combating this problem with an u...

Leadership

The Role of Organizational Design in Twenty-First Century Policing Organizations

The law enforcement profession is again battered by the cyclical fiscal upheaval that returns every few years. Just one decade into this new century, and the issues that confront law enforcement, as w...

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The Untruthful Employee: Is Termination the Only Response?

Over the decades, law enforcement leaders have been under increasing pressure to answer the question, “What do I do with a law enforcement employee who has been proven to be untruthful in the workpl...

Traffic Safety

Highway Safety Initiatives: Trunk Packing: A Matter of Officer Survival

Those officers assigned to fleet cruisers often are frustrated, to say the least, when they pop their cruisers’ trunks at crash scenes to find no road flares. More often than not, they see, untether...