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So many jurisdictions are coping with outdated and dysfunctional facilities, in many cases because those facilities were never intended to serve law enforcement needs in the first place. The IACP has ...
Technology
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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...
IACP
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The IACP received a Bureau of Justice Assistance grant in December 2010 to examine the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) iTrafficking initiative, a program that provides firea...
Technology
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When agencies need help, they can turn to the NLECTC for technical and practical solutions. One service the NLECTC system provides is assistance with locating and securing federal excess equipment thr...
Terrorism
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While social media strategies present new opportunities and are playing historic roles in spreading prodemocracy uprisings across the Middle East, they also are creating new concerns for security agen...
Community-Police Engagement
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Imagine if everyone opened up their morning newspaper every day and first read a short, positive story about an officer making a successful arrest. Then they turn the page and see photos and charges f...
Legal
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Many of us waited for months for the U.S. Supreme Court to issue its opinion in United States v. Jones, hoping upon hope to receive guidance on the rapidly evolving legal and policy issues related to ...
Technology
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New and emerging technologies are playing an increasingly crucial role in the daily work of frontline law enforcement officers, equipping them with enforcement and investigative tools that have the po...
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