July 2015

Research in Brief: The Houston Police Department Eyewitness Identification Experiment

Research has established that eyewitnesses make mistakes, and this fact, along with other significant factors, plays a role in erroneous convictions. The relationship between eyewitness mistakes and e...

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President’s Message: Sharing the Positive—Using Stats to Dispel Myths and Clarify Facts

While there will always be critics, we, as law enforcement leaders, must stand strong and united in our effort to dispel myths, clarify facts, and make sure that the true story of law enforcement and ...

Investigations

The Inside Information Checklist (IIC)

On September 2, 2014, North Carolina Superior Court Judge Douglas Sasser vacated the sentences of Henry Lee McCollum and Leon Brown, who had been convicted for the 1983 rape and murder of an 11-year-o...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: To Sniff or Not to Sniff: Conducting Dog Sniffs during Routine Traffic Stops

To take some creative freedom with respect to Shakespeare’s oft-quoted line from Hamlet, “To sniff or not to sniff, that is the question.” This is particularly true in the context of conducting ...

Traffic Safety

Traffic Incident Management: The Next Evolution in Officer Safety

If an agency member conducting a traffic collision investigation was forced to jump over a guardrail, upon a median wall, or onto a sidewalk to avoid being struck by an oncoming vehicle, would the chi...

Traffic Safety

Understanding and Applying Traffic Incident Management

Each year, hundreds of highway responders—law enforcement, fire, rescue, emergency medical services (EMS), tow or recovery, and others—are seriously injured or killed while working in or near movi...