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The concept of “policing by consent” has been a cornerstone of law enforcement in the United Kingdom for almost 200 years. The willing cooperation of the public toward being policed, and the need ...
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The police properly view their role as detecting what crime has been committed and who, in fact, committed it and who, in fact, did not. The investigative stage may be controlled by legal rules but it...
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Law enforcement agencies need to be able to respond to criminals who are using technology for their criminal enterprises. Today, law enforcement agencies have numerous modern high-technology tools inc...
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The National Data Exchange (N-DEx) became operational March 18, 2008. Long before the first records were put into the system, however, the catalyst for N-DEx’s success was put in place though the pr...
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There are currently 2.3 million hybrid and electric vehicles on the road in the United States.1 Hybrid and electric vehicle sales increased more than 50 percent in March 2012 over the same month in 20...
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Consider this: Officers respond to a call of domestic violence in progress. They arrive to hear a woman’s screams of pain and anguish emanating from somewhere in the back of the house. They h...
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The International Association of Chiefs of Police and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) have joined forces on a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), U.S...
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Geospatial analytics—the use of geographical data to help forecast and solve crimes—is a hot topic in law enforcement agencies right now, but its use is nothing new.
Geospatial analytics were e...
