Today’s Police Chiefs’ Greatest Challenge: Accountability, Accountability, Accountability!

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In today’s policing environment, maintaining trust is a constant internal and external challenge. Declining recruitment and retention efforts have created safety concerns for officers and communities, and, as a result of an exodus of experienced and qualified leaders, gaps in law enforcement leadership exist. High-profile incidents have created strategic uncertainty, and the constant political oversight and diminishing budgets have made it difficult, if not impossible, for chiefs to achieve their agencies’ mission to protect and serve their communities. Many of these situations could easily merge to create a critical challenge or insurmountable situation for leaders to navigate. A “perfect storm” might, in fact, be looming for law enforcement.