May 2018

Saving Lives Through Unconventional Community Outreach

For many of us, watching cartoons as a kid is a great memory. Seeing the bad guys ignite long fuses leading to powder kegs and an eventual explosion was exciting, but relatively harmless. However, tho...

Technology

The Rapidly Changing Landscape of Facial Recognition

Facial recognition is a technology that seems like it will soon be everywhere, from unlocking one’s phone to checking in for a flight at the airport. A fast food restaurant in China now allows diner...

Officer Safety & Wellness

A Template for Helping Law Enforcement Families during Troubled Times

These are troubled times for police officers and their families, with an almost endless stream of bad press about law enforcement, along with unthinkable assassinations and ambushes, numerous anti-pol...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Police Vehicle Warning Signals—An Innovative Approach to Officer Safety

There has been quite a lot of discussion in recent years about improving the safety of police vehicles, both while operating and while stopped or idling, and lowering the risk of related injuries and ...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Effects of Shift Work on Officer Safety and Wellness

Throughout evolution, people have been keeping time with environmental changes of day and night. Every person has a biological circadian clock that synchronizes sleep and wake with light or darkness. ...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Optimal Wellness Program Design: Research-Based Strategies to Achieve Measurable Success

“I got your six” is perhaps among the most noble and meaningful promises that members of the law enforcement industry can make to one another—the unconditional promise to have each other’s ba...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Insights on Officer Safety from Officer-Involved Shooting and Near Miss Incidents

Officer safety efforts, including those to reduce and prevent line-of-duty deaths, are continually of critical importance to the field, officers, and public safety. Two groundbreaking initiatives spea...

President's Message

President’s Message: Ensuring Officer Engagement in Physical Fitness and Wellness Programs: A Supervisor’s Duty

We all know police work is both physically and mentally demanding. What may be less well known is that police work places officers at a particularly high risk for early deaths, heart attacks, and othe...