December 2004

Nearly 15,000 attendees gathered last month in Los Angeles for the 111th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The membership adopted 13 resolutions; a summary of the resolutions begins on page 46. Cover inset photographs by David Hathcox.

Articles

• Law Enforcement Response to Persons with Aphasia

  By Maureen A. Will, Captain, Brookfield Police Department, Brookfield, Connecticut, and Joan F. Peters, Esq., Executive Director, National Aphasia Association
  Although aphasia is little known, it is fairly common. Officers are more likely to come into contact with people with aphasia than with people with Parkinson’s disease, cerebral palsy, multiple scle...

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• Los Angeles Hosts the 111th Annual IACP Conference

  Nearly 15,000 attendees gathered last month in Los Angeles for the 111th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The membership adopted 13 resolutions....

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• Military Involved: Whose Problem Is It?

  By M. James Willis, Director, Oregon Department of Veterans? Affairs, Salem, Oregon, and Oscar P. Benjamin, Special Agent, U.S. Army CID (USAR), Pennsauken, New Jersey
  Since the early Nineties, as the U.S. military has moved through phases of base realignment and closure, civilian law enforcement agencies have fewer local military points of contact for information a...

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• Public Opinion on Reforms in Policing

  By Ronald Weitzer, Professor of Sociology, and Steven A. Tuch, Professor of Sociology, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
  What specific changes, if any, does the public want to see in police practices? Surprisingly, this question has seldom been investigated. Rather, it is simply assumed that the public overwhelmingly fa...

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• Reactions and Resilience under Fire: What an Officer Can Expect

  By Audrey L. Honig, Ph.D., Director, and Steven E. Sultan, Ph.D., Assistant Director, Employee Support Services Bureau, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Monterey Park, California

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• Staff Inspection: A Strong Administrative Tool

  By John Fuller, Curriculum Writer, Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commissions, Woodstock, Maryland
  The staff inspection process is an administrative system that should be used by law enforcement agencies to conduct internal inspections and audits to ensure that agency units and personnel are in com...

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