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Each day, in towns and cities across the United States, law enforcement officers and civilian professional staff serve their communities in countless ways. Irrespective of the issue at hand—be it an...
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Serving vulnerable populations in Indian Country is an ever-evolving process. The U.S. government recognizes 566 tribes and there are 325 Native American reservations, Furthermore, there is “a total...
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Imagine that you are the chief of a large municipal police department with more than 500 sworn officers. To improve efficiency, your agency has arranged for a single patrol officer to take one-half of...
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As a university police department, the University of Colorado Boulder Police Department (CUPD) serves a “city within a city.” Roughly 37,000 students, faculty, and staff reside and/or work on the ...
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The relationship between police officers and teens has built-in complexities. Countless youth development studies have shown that the road to adulthood in teenage years is marked by a need to take ri...
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While celebrating it’s 100-year anniversary, An Garda Síochána (“The Guardians of the Peace” in Irish) takes a look back at its story and how it came into being as the unitary police and natio...
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The future of policing in the United States is bright.
I say this knowing full well that U.S. policing faces significant challenges today and tomorrow. Advances in policing have made it so much bet...
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The successful police departments of the next decade will be those that have engaged their communities; human services partners; and most critically, their political leadership to improve the manner i...