June 2024

Elite Crisis Response

For more than 40 years, the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) has trained for and responded to terrorist incidents, from the 1983 bombings of the U.S. embassy and Marine Barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, t...

Education & Training

A Training Approach to Use-of-Force Investigations

At most agencies, there is a specific process for the investigation of police use-of-force incidents. For many agencies, those investigations are initially reported to the field supervisor, then the r...

Policy

Public Order Policing

In 2020, the policing profession in the United States faced the daunting task of balancing public safety with preserving citizens’ rights to assemble and voice their concerns. The dynamic nature of ...

Technology

Drones in Tactical Crisis Response

Drones significantly impact policing during a tactical crisis response. In the past, any type of aerial reconnaissance or surveillance was only afforded to larger metropolitan police agencies that ope...

Mass Casualty Attacks

The Impact of Stress in Critical Incidents

With the complex diversity and level of skills necessary to effectively execute all that is required of today’s police officer, one might think the training would match that demand. Appropriate trai...

Education & Training

Tactical Empathy

As long as anyone could remember, the Pinellas County, Florida, Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) unit consisted of a Bravo and a Charlie team. Few of the operators ever que...

Research in Brief

Research in Brief: The Philadelphia Predictive Policing Experiment

A few years ago, predictive policing was all the rage. The term appeared with considerable frequency, companies offered expensive software options to police departments, and related sessions at the IA...