April 2014

Predictive Policing: What It Is, What It Isn’t and How It Can Be Useful

Policing that is smarter, more effective, and more proactive is clearly preferable to simply reacting to criminal acts. Predictive policing uses statistical techniques to identify promising targets fo...

Legislative Alert

Legislative Alert: President Obama Releases Fiscal Year 2015 Budget Proposal

On March 4, 2014, President Obama released his proposed budget for the federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2015, which begins on October 1, 2014. The president’s $3.901 trillion budget request proposes $1.065 ...

Product Feature

Product Feature: New Twists on Familiar Safeguards for Schools

Since 1980, 137 school shootings have accounted for 297 fatalities in the United States, the majority of them children. During that time the number of school shooting incidents increased each decade.1...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Predictive Policing: Understanding and Applying Analytical Techniques to Prevent and Combat Crime

While predictive policing has seen widespread use in recent years, the field has lacked a comprehensive resource that assesses the most commonly used tools and helps departments determine which are mo...

Crime & Violence

Start by Believing: Changing Attitudes Toward Sexual Assault

Two stories—in two days—illustrated in heartbreaking relief the critical need for change in societal attitudes toward sexual assault. Law enforcement leaders can lead the way to effect this change...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Using CompStat to Manage a Police Budget

It is hard to believe that CompStat has been in existence for 20 years, but it is now a large part of the landscape for today’s police agencies. CompStat holds those in command positions accountable...

President's Message

President’s Message: We’ve Heard from You: 2013 Customer Satisfaction Survey

The membership of the IACP is the lifeblood of the association. Your voice and input matter to us, which is why we conducted a customer satisfaction survey to review the work of the association in 201...