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The policing profession has been under intense scrutiny over the past several years.1 The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, brought allegations of racially motivated policing to th...
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During a time of marked high-profile cases that have turned a spotlight onto policies and training in law enforcement and amid the cries for officer training in areas such as cultural sensitivity and ...
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The last several years have been challenging for law enforcement. In August 2018, preliminary 2018 data show that fatalities in law enforcement were already up by more than 10 percent over 2017 and th...
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The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is the modern system for U.S.-wide collection of crime data by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). NIBRS contains structured information abo...
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Recruitment and retention will be one of the most significant challenges facing law enforcement in the near future; in fact, it is already a challenge for many agencies. There are several reasons for ...
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In the never-ending search for ways to combat crime more effectively, one thing is clear: the ideal solution is to prevent crimes from occurring in the first place. Since the 1990s, many law enforceme...
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Recent decades have seen a steady evolution in the expectations of and demands on police officers. Highly publicized use-of-force incidents and officer-involved shootings have exacerbated a mistrust o...
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Law enforcement is constantly evolving to meet the needs of today’s environment. As the landscape of policing changes over time, many agencies need facilities that can incorporate or accommodate the...
