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On January 13, 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice published the Investigation of the Chicago Police Department.1 The report focused heavily on the need for the Chicago, Illinois, Police Department...
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Many law enforcement agencies are faced with questions about what type of technology to invest in. This is certainly relevant in an era of contracting budgets. One type of technology available to law ...
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It’s the third Tuesday of the month, 10:00 a.m. sharp. Newark, New Jersey, Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose, calls the gathering to order and takes his seat at the head of a table of police ch...
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Body-worn cameras (BWCs) are one of the most rapidly spreading technologies in policing today. As of 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that 60 percent of local police departments a...
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The policing profession has been under intense scrutiny over the past several years.1 The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, brought allegations of racially motivated policing to th...
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The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is the modern system for U.S.-wide collection of crime data by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). NIBRS contains structured information abo...
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In the never-ending search for ways to combat crime more effectively, one thing is clear: the ideal solution is to prevent crimes from occurring in the first place. Since the 1990s, many law enforceme...
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A trooper on patrol is dispatched to the scene of a shoplifting at a mall; another is dispatched to a residential burglary in a rural area; and a third investigates a personal injury motor vehicle acc...
