August 2017

Research in Brief: Measuring Police Proactivity

One of the most significant reforms in modern policing has been the push for law enforcement to be more proactive in reducing crime or building trust and confidence with their communities. While there...

Policy

Some Thoughts on Real Risk Management

How did law enforcement take the broad discipline known as “risk management” and try to put it into a box, limiting it to “the safety” stuff or the “code enforcement” stuff? Risk managemen...

Education & Training

Risk Management: Raising the Performance Level and Lowering the Liability Threat

For decades, the law enforcement profession has responded to external pressures (lawsuits, negative press, Department of Justice investigations, consent decrees, citizen review boards, public demonstr...

Officer Safety Corner

Officer Safety Corner: Bulletproof Spirit: Emotional Health and Wellness

Emotional health and wellness is one of the most critical issues facing law enforcement, yet it is one of the least addressed. The stress and trauma faced by officers have adverse effects on their emo...

Education & Training

Unequipped, Underfunded, Understaffed: Investing in Your Officers to Manage Risk

Law enforcement agencies are faced with tough decisions every day to ensure their communities are protected. An agency’s ability to fulfill this responsibility comes down to three vital components: ...

IACP Working for You

IACP Working For You: Trauma-Informed Policing: Responding to Children Exposed to Violence

Millions of children and adolescents in the United States are exposed to violence as victims or witnesses in their homes, schools, and communities every year. Findings from the second National Survey ...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: One Town’s Approach to Combating Distracted Driving: Oro Valley Goes Hands-Free

In Arizona, a law enforcement officer rarely goes a single day without seeing someone driving on a highway or roadway with a mobile phone or other electronic device in their hand that is causing the m...

President's Message

President’s Message: Use of Force Issues: Warning Shots and Shots Discharged at Moving Vehicles

As noted in the March 2017 issue of Police Chief, the IACP, in conjunction with the Fraternal Order of Police, assembled leading law enforcement leadership and labor organizations to examine the issue...