Drugs & Alcohol
A close-up image of a person's hand holding a steering wheel while driving. The person is also holding a lit cigarette or joint between their fingers. The background shows a blurred view of a road and some buildings, with sunlight streaming in from the left side of the image.
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In a June 2021 Special Session, the Connecticut House of Representatives voted to become the 19th state to legalize the use of recreational cannabis for adults over the age of 21. The state capitol, s...
Sponsor Article
The flow of data across a connected world
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Police leaders are responsible for guiding their agencies through evolving technologies that enhance public safety while maintaining security, efficiency, and compliance. One of the most transformativ...
Community-Police Engagement
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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
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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
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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...
Crime & Violence
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Everyday police work encompasses any kind of deployment that police officers handle daily. These tasks include, for example, interventions in cases of domestic violence, handling of traffic crashes an...
Community-Police Engagement
Women distraught in the street wrapped in robes
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Then-Captain Mike Hanifin stood proudly in front of his peers, choked up and fighting back tears. He paused before he uttered two powerful words that resonated with his colleagues and summed up the ef...
Community-Police Engagement
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Youth-focused policing is a proactive strategy that enables police to engage with youth early, aiming to reduce delinquency, crime, victimization, long-term health and criminal justice costs, and prol...