March 2021

Traditional Public Information Offices Must Evolve into Aligned, Strategic Communications Operations

At many police departments and law enforcement agencies, the public information office has historically played a supportive but minimal role when it comes to organizational strategy. The function of t...

Ethics

Criminal Probes Must Seek the Truth

College courses in criminal justice teach it; police policies proclaim it; detectives and investigators are instructed in it: “The fundamental purpose of a criminal investigation is to find the trut...

Community-Police Engagement

The Path to Trust

2020 highlighted cracks in the social foundation of communities across the world. The compounding stress caused by COVID-19 and economic uncertainty illuminated existing inequities, and the death of G...

Community-Police Engagement

No More Rocks and Bottles

An excessive force incident in one city is no longer an isolated incident with no effect on other cities. This was one of the many lessons U.S. police learned following the death of George Floyd in Mi...

العربية

كلمة الرئيسة: دور ضابط الإعلام العام (PIO) في الإستجابة للحوادث الحرجة

تحدثتٌ مؤخرًا خلال مؤتمر خريجي مركز الدفاع والأمن الداخلي (CHDS) حول مبادرتي الرئاسية لإعادة تصور الفلسفات والأ...

português

Mensagem do presidente: O papel dos Oficiais de Relações Públicas na resposta a incidentes críticos

Recentemente, falei durante a conferência de ex-alunos do Centro de Defesa e Segurança Interna (CHDS,a sigla em inglês) sobre minha iniciativa presidencial de re-imaginar filosofias, ferramentas, t...