June 2004

SPECIAL FOCUS: Information Technology Standards

Information technology standards may be the solution to one of the toughest problems facing law enforcement: sharing information across jurisdictional boundaries. In this issue of the Police Chief, law enforcement executives, government policy makers, and technology experts describe the ongoing projects designed to make these standards a reality. Photo © 2000 PhotoDisc, Inc.

Articles

• Homeland Security: The Internal Terrorists

  By Michael Berkow, Deputy Chief of Police, Los Angeles, California
  A CNN lead story in February 2004 should scare every police chief in America. The story is a military story — a member of the National Guard is alleged to have tried to pass military secrets to al Q...

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• Information Technology Standards: What Chiefs Need to Know about XML

  By Paul Embley, Chairman, Global XML Standardization Task Force
  Every day, law enforcement executives deal with such critical issues as budgets, media inquiries, and officer safety. It is unlikely that technologies like eXten...

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• Law Enforcement Information Technology Standards Council and Standard Functional Requirements

  By Jennifer Hicks, Project Manager, Law Enforcement Information Technology Standards Council, IACP
  Imagine that your department staff could develop a request for proposals (RFP) for a new records management system without having to start from scratch but with the peace of mind that comes from knowi...

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• NLETS and the Information Sharing Challenge

  By Steven Correll, Executive Director, National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System (NLETS)
  Where it was once considered a lofty and futuristic goal, information sharing is now, since September 11, 2001, routinely understood and accepted as the essential mission-critical requirement to achie...

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• Reducing Bias in Policing: A Model Approach in Virginia

  By Leonard G. Cooke, Director, Department of Criminal Justice Services, Richmond, Virginia
  The Commonwealth of Virginia has undertaken a unique process to address the issue of bias-based policing. It grew out of a determination to proactively take on t...

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• Reducing Juvenile Violence through Prevention, Intervention, and Law Enforcement Practices

  By R. Rita Dorsey, Ph.D., Executive Commander for Community Policing and Executive Director of the Juvenile Violence Abatement Project, Division of Police Services, Memphis, Tennessee
  Children are especially vulnerable to violence and its consequences. In Memphis, Tennessee, after a stray bullet struck and killed a three-year-old girl in 2002,...

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• Strategic Management in Policing: The Role of the Strategic Manager

  By Kim Charrier, Strategic Manager, Phoenix Police Department, Arizona
  Successful police executives are driving organizational change through strategic management-an ongoing process that seeks opportunities to enhance operational efficiencies by identifying internal issu...

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• The Role and Impact of Police Practices Experts on Litigation

  By Karen J. Kruger, Assistant Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore
  This article examines the role of expert testimony in police misconduct litigation. Police practices experts have become particularly conspicuous in cases alleging use of excessive force, and their pa...

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• Wireless Standards to Enable Broadband

  By Michael Webb, Director and Founder, ICTconsult Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  Law enforcement has relied heavily on wireless systems for decades. Most wireless solutions in use today are either private, purpose-built land-mobile networks providing mainly voice services, or comm...

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