August 2015

Military Veterans and the Contemporary Challenges in Law Enforcement

Contemporary law enforcement faces an ever-growing collection of challenges. Among these challenges is managing the seeming contradiction between calls for the demilitarization of police departments a...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: Ambushes on U.S. Law Enforcement Officers

The primary goal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) Program is to reduce the number of law enf...

President's Message

President’s Message: Priority One: Officer Safety and Wellness

When we made our commitment to the law enforcement profession, we promised to protect and serve our communities. With that duty comes great responsibility and challenges, and our jobs are inherently d...

Product Feature

Product Feature: Striking Back Against Statistics: Innovative Tools Help Reduce and Prevent Drug and Alcohol Crimes

The statistics on drug and alcohol abuse need no introduction or explanation. They speak perfectly well for themselves. According to FBI data, of the 11,302,102 total arrests made in 2013, drug abuse ...

Technology Talk

Technology Talk: Providing Access to the Best Equipment Standards

Since 1972, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has been setting minimum performance standards to ensure that the unique equipment used by law enforcement and other criminal justice agencies meet ...

Community-Police Engagement

Reply to RespectStat: Good, Now Let’s Go One Step Farther

Over the past two decades, CompStat has been widely used by police executives as a tool to increase accountability for crime problems in specific districts or precincts. Although CompStat is controver...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Marijuana Use by Youth Can Have Long-Term Consequences

As public attitudes about marijuana shift and some U.S. states legalize it for medicinal or recreational use, the impact of these changes on public safety and health are an active area of research and...

Global Policing

Strengthening Capabilities through U.S. Army Interagency Fellowships

In the early morning hours of Thursday, March 13, 2014, the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force (Fort Lauderdale team) arrested James Robert Jones as he unsuspectedly beg...