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October 2020

Policing and Policy

GUEST EDITOR: Sarah Guy

As policing strives to meet emerging challenges and threats, implement new technologies, or adjust to changing expectations, the policies that guide agency decisions, officer actions, the use of technology, and the role of policing in society also have to evolve to remain relevant and useful.

Cover: IACP President Steven R. Casstevens sat down with U.S. Attorney General William Barr to discuss global policing issues.
(Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Justice.)

Articles

  • Special Feature: IACP Interviews U.S. Attorney General on Global Policing Topics

    IACP President Steven R. Casstevens had the opportunity to sit down with United States Attorney General William P. Barr in early September 2020 to discuss the most pressing issues confronting policing...

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  • Jettisoning the Lethal Force Gold Standard

    By Mike Callahan, Supervisory Special Agent/Chief Division Counsel (Ret.), Federal Bureau of Investigation
    California Assembly Bill AB-392 was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom on August 19, 2019, and went into effect on January 1, 2020. The new law sponsored by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Di...

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  • Police Reform Requires Raising Educational Standards

    By Christopher L. McFarlin, JD, Professor, Criminal Justice, American Military University
    Is law enforcement a “profession”? Police officers certainly consider themselves to be professionals; however, society continues to struggle to hold law enforcement in the same regard as engineeri...

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  • Getting in Front of Facial Recognition

    By Martin Zaworski, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Florida International University, and Patrick Doyle, Lieutenant (Ret.), New Jersey State Police
    It should come as no surprise that facial recognition software is seen by many law enforcement officials as a valuable tool to help identify or locate people, either to assist victims or bring offende...

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  • Proven Pandemic Response Tactics

    By Christopher Fisher, PhD, Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives, Seattle Police Department, Washington
    The Seattle, Washington, Police Department (SPD) has been operating under the COVID-19 pandemic since February 27, 2020. This is the date that the Seattle-King County region identifies as marking when...

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  • Ad Index: October 2020

    The advertisers in this issue can help equip your department with the most efficient tools available today!...

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