February 2017

Recent Improvements to the FBI’s National Data Exchange (N DEx)

Much has happened at the N-DEx Program Office since the 2013 Police Chief article featuring the N‑DEx system.1 As the United States’ premier no-cost criminal justice information sharing system, N-...

Youth

The MASTLE: Obtaining Legitimacy Through Fair, Impartial, and Objective Decision-Making

Trust and legitimacy are built on fairness and integrity. When law enforcement personnel are trustworthy, honest, and concerned about the well-being of the people they encounter, long-term relationshi...

Ethics

Assessing Bias and Intolerance in Police and Public Safety Personnel

Being a law enforcement officer in today’s society is a challenging and complex task; it requires officers to be free from bias and intolerance in order to perform their duties well. At present, lim...

Ethics

What Happened to Public Trust? An Examination of Outcome-Based Strategies to Enhance Ethical Policing

In Santa Ana, California, police served a search warrant on a marijuana dispensary that was operating improperly. After the business had been cleared of patrons and workers, a video surveillance syste...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Event Deconfliction Avoids Operational Conflicts, Saves Lives, and Solves Cases

One of the greatest responsibilities a country has is to provide a safe working environment for its law enforcement professionals. Every day, officers risk their lives keeping their communities safe f...

Recruitment & Personnel

Police Officer Recruitment- A Decade Later

In October 2006, “Police Officer Recruitment: A Public Sector Crisis,” was published in Police Chief. The article identified a number of issues impacting the recruitment of police officers includi...

Cybercrime

The New Volume Demand: Keeping Pace with Vulnerability through Culture Change

Law enforcement in the United Kingdom is experiencing many changes and challenges, both in terms of the demands placed on policing and law enforcement and in the complexity of providing these services...

Community-Police Engagement

Ideas & Insights, Part 1: Police Culture in the 21st Century

The importance of police culture is widely recognized—the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing noted that “[o]rganizational culture eats policy for lunch” and “[b]ehavior is more ...