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Across the world, 2020 threw challenge after challenge at police. The headline may have been Covid-19, but the subheadings have been many.1 From the unprecedented need to enforce a public health lockd...
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A crisis is the forge in which leadership is made, strengthened, and sharpened. People organize themselves and form organizations in response to conflicts in society. These organizations provide stabi...
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As leaders in the ever-evolving field of policing, police commanders have a duty and responsibility to share lessons learned with their peers. Such lessons can come from a variety of topics, and those...
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Recent events have focused attention on police reform and led to public demands to “rethink” how police services are provided. The enormous amount of attention focused on restraint techniques, qua...
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The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis, wrote “Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric l...
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Staffing issues have plagued police executives across the globe in their search to fill vacancies with qualified applicants capable of dealing with the complex realities of modern policing. These chal...
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In 2016, the Casper, Wyoming; Chattanooga, Tennessee; and Saginaw, Michigan, Police Departments were selected as demonstration sites for the Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Victims (ELERV) initi...
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Intelligence-led policing (ILP) has resulted in police operational decisions becoming increasingly data driven, and many communities are safer because police departments analyze incident data more eff...
