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“Forensic video analysis is a very powerful tool that can be used in search of the truth. There is no prosecution truth or defense truth; there is only the truth.” To the lofty statement above,...
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The increase of reported hate crimes in FBI data, now for a third straight year, demonstrates clearly the continued importance of law enforcement agencies having a specific plan in place for respondi...
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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...
Community-Police Engagement
Officer having a friendly conversation with a civilian woman.
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Homelessness. Mental illness. Substance use disorders. Law enforcement officers are routinely responding to calls in the community related to these three issues, and they are expected to have instant ...
Legislative Alert
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On February 12, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a proposed budget of $4.4 trillion for federal fiscal year (FY) 2019, which begins on October 1, 2018. The president’s proposed FY 2019 bud...
Research & Evidence-Based Policing
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Self-administered first aid kits or trauma kits have become standard officer-issued equipment in recent history. These kits enhance officers’ capability to save lives—their own or other persons—...
Technology
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On June 1, 2017, shortly after 10:00 a.m., the Stafford County, Virginia, Sheriff’s Office was notified that an individual had fired shots into a vehicle parked on private property in the northern p...
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How did law enforcement take the broad discipline known as “risk management” and try to put it into a box, limiting it to “the safety” stuff or the “code enforcement” stuff? Risk managemen...