July 2020

Safe and Welcoming Place

The Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Police Department has launched a memory café as part of our ongoing crime prevention and community engagement efforts. A memory café is a safe and welcoming place...

Recruitment & Personnel

Why Do Officers Succeed?

Policing is a human endeavor, and for that reason alone, it occasionally yields catastrophic consequences. Nearly two centuries have passed since Sir Robert Peel founded the Western world’s f...

Community-Police Engagement

The Round Rock, Texas, Police Department (RRPD) started Operation Front Porch in December 2017 as a novel way for residents to prevent package theft. Each holiday season, residents are invited to have...

Investigations

Collaborative Prevention of Mass Shootings

Mass shootings are horrific. They are also difficult to predict and, therefore, difficult to prevent. While rare compared with the rate of other shootings, mass shootings have a substantial impact on ...

Community-Police Engagement

Sympathy Card Program

The value of a handwritten note to a friend or acquaintance is well understood and appreciated when a loved one passes away, and the expression of sincere compassion and empathy is one of the simplest...

Recruitment & Personnel

The Texas First Responder Peer Network

Police leaders worldwide are aware that suicide among law enforcement officers is endemic. In 2019, at least 228 police officers died by suicide in the United States alone, eclipsing line-of-du...

Tech Talk

Tech Talk: Maintaining ECC Operations Remotely During a Public Health Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the way many organizations operate, and the public safety emergency communications centers (ECCs) have not been immune to its impact. After all, emergencies do no...

Product Feature

Product Feature: Creating Safe Environments through Architecture and Design

Police agencies vary greatly in size, type, and area served, so, naturally, police facilities also come in many shapes and sizes—Ideally, each agency has a facility specifically built based upon the...