July 2024

Transforming Police Training for Tomorrow

In his insightful book, The Infinite Game, the business leadership guru Simon Sinek asserts, “Great leaders are the ones who think beyond ‘short term’ versus ‘long term.’ They are the ones...

Focus on Officer Wellness

Focus on Officer Wellness: Utilizing Integrated Police Social Workers for Internal Wellness

In March 2019, the Bloomington, Indiana, Police Department (BPD) hired its first integrated police social worker (PSW). While the initial goals of the program were related to decreasing repeat call...

Officer Safety & Wellness

People gather for a vigil for the victims of the mass shooting that occurred over night, at the Levitt Pavilion on August 4, 2019 in Dayton, Ohio. In the second mass shooting in the U.S. within 24 hours a gunman left nine dead and another 27 wounded after only a minute of shooting. (Photo by Matthew Hatcher/Getty Images)

The Psychological Toll of Mass Violence Response

“Science doesn’t have the corner on truth. The reality of the Oregon District Mass Shooting is that it was an absolute horror for everyone touched by it, and there is no sufficient narrative to ex...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: The Pedestrian Problem in Maryland

In 2018, in Maryland, 131 pedestrians lost their lives as a result of a motor vehicle crash.1 Of those fatalities, about 20 percent were in Baltimore County.2 When any five-year trend was considere...

Perspectives

Perspectives: July 2024

We have benefited from annual department-wide crowd control training, as it can take time for the frontline officers and supervisors to get comfortable with crowd control formations. For planned re...

IACP@Work

IACP@Work: Officer Wellness Dashboard

Over the past several years, the importance of officer wellness has come to the forefront with more agencies implementing wellness programs, embedding wellness into their agency culture, and investing...

Index to Advertisers

July 2024: Ad Index

The advertisers in this issue can help equip your department with the most efficient tools available today!...

Informer

Informer: July 2024

Research abounds on topics related to policing and criminal justice, and it can be difficult to sift through it all. Informer breaks down three studies for police leaders to help keep them up to date....