December 2016

Technology Talk: Mobile Smartphone Safety Apps: Valuable Proactive and Reactive Tools

Mobile safety applications for smartphones are now available to help law enforcement agencies improve the safety of the citizens they serve. Some of these applications (apps) were initially targeted f...

Community-Police Engagement

Eliminate the Middleman: Telling the Agency’s Own Story with Social Media

In a culture of cellphone videos and body cameras, the public sees the world through a small lens—the angle of which is historically, dictated by the media. Researchers have often argued that factor...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: The First Amendment in the Workplace

The First Amendment of the U.S Constitution provides: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,...

Community-Police Engagement

Retweets and Robert Peel: How to Take Community Policing Online with Twitter

If Sir Robert Peel were alive today, he’d probably be a Twitter power user. Almost two centuries ago, Sir Robert Peel and the newly formed London Metropolitan Police force—then struggling t...

Leadership

Circle of Safety: Leadership’s Role in the Law Enforcement Environment

Whenever I hear about a corporate scandal, like what happened at Wells Fargo, where millions of customer accounts were opened illegally by employees to help drive their numbers, I immediately want to ...

Community-Police Relations

From Handshakes to Hashtags: Using Every Communication Tool in the Law Enforcement Toolbox

When I joined the Charlotte Police Department in Charlotte, North Carolina, 37 years ago, the department issued each officer a two-way radio to talk to a single officer or dispatcher. In July 2016, Fa...

IACP

Report of the 123rd Annual IACP Conference and Exposition

The 123rd Annual IACP Conference and Exposition in San Diego, California, was a great success. IACP 2016 featured more than 250 workshops, and the exposition hall featured more than 750 companies. ...

Product Update

Product Update – December 2016

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