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April 2013

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Articles

  • Solutions for the Smaller Agency

    By Guest Editors: Elaine Deck, Senior Program Manager, Smaller Law Enforcement Agency Program, IACP; Ben Ekelund, Project Manager, Smaller Law Enforcement Agency Program, IACP; and Erin Vermilye, Manager, Division of State Associations of Chiefs of Police (SACOP), IACP
    More than 94 percent of the more than 12,500 local police agencies across the United States serve populations of 50,000 or fewer. Since 1998, the IACP Smaller Law Enforcement Agency Technical Assistan...

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  • Transforming Underperforming Smaller Police Agencies into High-Performance Organizations

    By Paul Schultz, Chief, Canon City, Colorado, Police Department
    Many IACP members represent the nearly 18,000 state, local, and tribal agencies in the United States who serve populations of 50,000 or fewer with fewer than 25 sworn officers. These agencies are led ...

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  • Staffing the “Small” Department: Taking Stock of Existing Benchmarks and Promising Approaches

    By Jeremy M. Wilson, PhD, Associate Professor and Associate Director for Research, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Alexander Weiss, PhD, President, Alexander Weiss Consulting, LLC; Adjunct Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
    Staffing police departments is a continuous challenge and one that has become more complex in recent years. Immediately prior to the onset of the 2008 recession, police agencies had difficulty recruit...

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  • Evidence-Based Policing in Smaller Agencies: Challenges, Prospects, and Opportunities

    By Cynthia Lum, Director and Associate Professor, Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia Christopher S. Koper, Associate Professor, Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
    The push for more evidence-based approaches to policing has led to a rethinking by law enforcement leaders about how to incorporate research and analysis into their tactics and strategies.

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  • Future of Policing in America: Bringing the Voice of Smaller Agencies to the National Dialogue

    By Ben Ekelund, Project Manager, Smaller Law Enforcement Agency Program, IACP
    Within the IACP Division of State Associations of Chiefs of Police, there is a Smaller Agency Section. The purpose of this section is to represent the interests of law enforcement agencies with fewer ...

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