October 2018

Operational Applications of NIBRS to Policing

The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is the modern system for U.S.-wide collection of crime data by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). NIBRS contains structured information abo...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: Officer Use of Discretion: Lessons Learned from the Misdemeanor Justice Project

It is becoming evident that lower-level enforcement actions like misdemeanor arrests, citations or summonses, and pedestrian and vehicle stops—all of which are often initiated at the discretion of i...

Recruitment & Personnel

Three Areas of Consideration for Solving Recruitment Challenges

Recruitment and retention will be one of the most significant challenges facing law enforcement in the near future; in fact, it is already a challenge for many agencies. There are several reasons for ...

Research & Evidence-Based Policing

Intelligence-led Policing: Changing the Face of Crime Prevention

In the never-ending search for ways to combat crime more effectively, one thing is clear: the ideal solution is to prevent crimes from occurring in the first place. Since the 1990s, many law enforceme...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: A National Perspective on Officers Injured While On-Duty: New Effort to Collect Data on Nonfatal Injuries

Officer safety and wellness has emerged as an international priority for law enforcement. In 2015, the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing identified officer safety and wellness as one o...

Leadership

Heart-Focused Leadership: A Shifting Police Leadership Paradigm

At the IACP Annual Conferences in San Diego, California (2016), and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2017), noted leadership speaker and author Simon Sinek challenged law enforcement executives to amplify ...

Community-Police Engagement

Community Policing Strategic Plan

Recent decades have seen a steady evolution in the expectations of and demands on police officers. Highly publicized use-of-force incidents and officer-involved shootings have exacerbated a mistrust o...