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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...
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A trooper on patrol is dispatched to the scene of a shoplifting at a mall; another is dispatched to a residential burglary in a rural area; and a third investigates a personal injury motor vehicle acc...
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All professions, even those with selective recruiting processes and rigorous hiring standards such as law enforcement, are required to deal with misconduct from a member of their field at some time. I...
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The last few years of high-profile crises involving law enforcement have demonstrated the need for resilient police officers. Officers who lack resiliency are more prone to react to situations in an u...
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Thousands of U.S. law enforcement agencies participate in the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program via the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), but many agencies still use the Su...
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Every time a new police chief, sheriff, or other law enforcement leader gets sworn in as a public servant, the community members he or she will serve cannot help but hope for an improvement of their n...
