Ethics
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With today’s national emphasis for an Intelligence-Sharing Environment (ISE), there are greater opportunities for noble cause corruption (NCC) in law enforcement’s efforts to combat terrorism and ...
Research & Evidence-Based Policing
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In 2002, Correll and others published a paper titled, “The Police Officer’s Dilemma.” The paper was, in part, a reaction to the death of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed black man who was shot and kill...
Ethics
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When a professional sports team fails to make the playoffs year in and year out, sports pundits talk about their losing “locker room culture.” Generally, in the sports environment this losing cult...
Ethics
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A few years ago, the owner of a trailer park in Bedford, Virginia, was caught allowing the park’s sewage lagoon to discharge sewage into a branch of Sandy Creek, a tributary of the Roanoke River con...
Ethics
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This article reviews highlights of the advances of professional policing in recent decades and illuminates the obstacles that continue to prevent the image of police from becoming more positive. Also ...
Drugs & Alcohol
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Confidential informants are crucial to many law enforcement investigations and are especially essential in the field of narcotics investigations. Informants can provide specific information that is si...
Education & Training
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Every day, police professionals decide and act while balancing competing and conflicting values and interests, frequently with incomplete or inaccurate information, often in highly emotional and dynam...
Ethics
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For the past several decades, there have been efforts to increase the education requirements for law enforcement officers. Newspaper, magazine, and journal articles cite numerous studies whose finding...