Drugs & Alcohol
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The traditional police response to service calls involving substance use disorder (SUD) is focused on short-term interventions—life-saving treatment, detox, and enforcement or arrest. In contrast, l...
Criminal Justice Reform
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At the Winthrop Police Department in Winthrop, Massachusetts, officers work a schedule of four days on and four days off. Shifts are 10 hours long, and the jurisdiction’s patrol officers have learne...
Criminal Justice Reform
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Three officers watched as their training officer that day effected an arrest. They watched as the senior officer on the scene, for nine and half minutes, applied 92 lbs. of weight onto the neck of a ...
Criminal Justice Reform
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Blood sugar dysregulation (dysglycemia) refers to an abnormality in blood sugar stability and can include high blood glucose levels (hyperglycemia) and low blood glucose levels (hypoglycemia). Althoug...
Criminal Justice Reform
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For anyone who has been assigned to work a human trafficking case, who thought they have possibly encountered a human trafficking victim, who felt something was “off” during a traffic stop or duri...
Community-Police Engagement
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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...
Youth
Security guard at a public junior high school -- students in background
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Policing for K–12 schools is different from other forms of policing. While in the end, all police departments are made up of police officers who enforce the law, the approach to policing students mu...
Criminal Justice Reform
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Now, more than ever, policing leaders and executives must foster the compassionate, inclusive delivery of policing services. To achieve this, law enforcement agencies must engage in proactive effo...