March 2017

Chief’s Counsel: “Legal” or Not, Peace Officers Cannot Smoke Marijuana

At the end of 2016, approximately 28 U.S. states and the District of Columbia had decriminalized marijuana for medical purposes, recreational purposes, or both. Each state’s laws vary to significan...

Community-Police Engagement

Building Solid Community-Police Relationships Through Community Policing Promising Practices From the Field

For decades, the argument has been made that one of the surest ways to build positive, lasting community-police relationships is through an organizational commitment to community policing.1 The IACP h...

Mental Health

Policing Persons with Disabilities in the 21st Century: A Call for Crisis Prevention and Procedural Justice

Robert “Ethan” Saylor was a 26-year-old man who enjoyed going to the movies. He also had Down syndrome, a genetic condition that often causes intellectual and developmental delays. In February 201...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: Taking Care of Your Own: Sustaining a Culture of Crash Prevention Efforts in Law Enforcement

Each day in the lives of local and international law enforcement professionals requires balancing officer safety concerns with serving and protecting citizens and communities. It’s no secret that la...

Legislative Alert

Legislative Alert: IACP President Testifies on Mental Health Care and Law Enforcement’s Role

On February 15, 2017, IACP President Donald W. De Lucca testified before the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies’ Hearing on ...

Youth

The Direct Relationship of Mentoring, Positive Intervention, and Enhanced Youth-Police Engagement

Mentoring—investing time into encouraging and supporting someone else’s life, education, career, or professional development—is generally accepted to be a positive act that yields positive outco...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Leveraging Foot Patrol to Strengthen Community-Police Relations

In 2016, the Police Foundation examined how five U.S. law enforcement agencies have returned to a policing tradition—foot patrol—to engage and build relationships with their communities. The study...

Community-Police Engagement

Collaborative Policing: The New Paradigm for Effective Policing

Collaboration is fundamental to effective law enforcement in the 21st century, but community-police collaboration is not a new concept. As long ago as 1829, Sir Robert Peel, who created the first prof...