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October 2012

The 119th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police will convene Saturday, September 29, 2012, through Wednesday, October 3, 2012, at the San Diego Convention Center, 111 West Harbor Drive, San Diego, California. The cover photograph features the conference host, Chief of Police, William Lansdowne, of the San Diego Police Department.

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  • Police-Probation/Parole Partnerships: Responding to Local Street Gang Problems

    Street gang violence is a concern for many inner cities. The National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC) reported the existence of an estimated 33,000 gangs and 1.4 million gang members in the United Sta...

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  • Interrogations 2013: Safeguarding against False Confessions

    Historically, there has been considerable debate about the causes of wrongful convictions, in part because there was not full agreement about whether the defendants were truly innocent. To learn from ...

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  • Public-Private Partnerships: Assessing Support Structures at the Local Level

    In this age of declining budgets and expanding needs and mandates, the importance of effective partnerships between the public and private sector never has been clearer. Experienced police commanders ...

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  • Interrogation Full Circle: How FLETC Partnered with Dallas to Develop Video-Based Training

    Henry David Thoreau once said, “It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.” While the philosopher certainly was not referring to criminal interrogations, this principle very mu...

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  • The Mental Edge: Effective Cognitive Processing in Law Enforcement

    Most of the contacts officers and commanders have with psychologists deal with issues of mental health, such as fitness for duty and preemployment. The police psychologists themselves are generally cl...

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  • New Leadership for the IACP Research Advisory Committee

    In June 13, IACP President Walter McNeil welcomed Laurie O. Robinson, former assistant attorney general of the U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, from 2009 to 2012, and now profe...

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  • A Summer Abroad: The IACP International Policing Division International Conferences and Symposiums 2012

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