August 2018

Building Community Trust Through Transparency: The FBI’s National Use-of-Force Data Collection

The effectiveness of a law enforcement agency and its officers depends enormously on the relationship the agency has forged with the community it serves. Community-police relationships, like all relat...

Community-Police Engagement

SDHP State Troopers: Strengthening Relationships

One of U.S. painter Norman Rockwell’s most famous works is entitled The Runaway. This painting depicts a young boy at a restaurant counter, presumably in a small town in the United States. He is sit...

Community-Police Engagement

Bringing Sides Together: Community-Based Complaint Mediation

Police departments worldwide are facing the challenge of building community trust in an environment of controversial shootings and political polarization. In particular, some community members believe...

Community-Police Engagement

Using Research to Build Trust and Empathy: Meaningful Change through Intergroup Contact

The phrase “building trust” has been the focus of many meetings, conversations, and academic publications on the topic of community policing and engagement with respect to procedural justice. It ...

Chief's Counsel

Chief’s Counsel: Fourth Amendment Protection for “Curtilage” of a Home Trumps Automobile Exception

On May 29, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Collins v. Virginia that the automobile exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment does not permit warrantless entry of a home or its ...

Officer Safety & Wellness

Officer Safety Corner: Officer Performance Optimization: An Integrated and Culturally Relevant Approach to Officer Wellness, Health, and Performance

The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing’s recommendations focused on concerns for officer safety and wellness.1 Concurrently, the scrutiny of use-of-force policies and training has inc...

IACP

IACP 2018 Highlights

As IACP celebrates its 125th Anniversary in 2018, it is important to note how much the profession has evolved since the association’s founding in 1893. Throughout these years, those who serve contin...