February 2025

Reaching the Right Audience

For police leaders, public safety should always be top of mind, including when it comes to critical messaging—and who should receive those messages. If the public is not the audience for communicati...

Criminal Justice Reform

Preparing a Police Department for Reform

All organizations, whether public or private, need to evolve and improve over time. In policing, this evolution is often described as “reform,” whereby individual police departments steer their of...

Crime & Violence

Officer grabbing their taser in the holster

The Deadly Threat of Knife Throwing

Most officers today have some working knowledge and training in how various human and environmental factors impact officer safety, critical decision-making and force option selection. Specifically, of...

Mass Casualty Attacks

Finding a Shared Purpose

As police professionals know, one phone call can change everything. At 9:25 p.m. on June 17, 2015, Chief Mullen received the call no police chief ever wants to get—a call that would change his life....

Focus on Officer Wellness

Focus on Officer Wellness: Integrating Effective Physical Fitness Screening Methods into the Academy

The frontline to job-task basics and foundational knowledge happens within the academy setting. Recruits learn baseline skills, laws, procedures, and information that becomes more defined and establis...

Traffic Safety Initiatives

Traffic Safety Initiatives: Automatic License Plate Recognition

Automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras are solving more crimes than ever before. The increase is driven by technology going beyond reading license plates. Investigators can now search for ...

President's Message

President’s Message: A Collective Responsibility

When we hear elected officials, the media, and community members discuss the criminal justice system, almost always, these discussions focus on the police. However, as we know, the real criminal justi...

Spotlight

Spotlight: Fostering Support for All

When a public safety center in Oregon chose to partner with the Clatsop County Animal Assistance, they had planned to obtain a dog that would improve the mental health of their employees. What they...