Crime
Partnering with local businesses and community stakeholders should be a key part of a police department’s crime reduction strategy
Oakland recently became the second city in the United States to decriminalize the consumption and ingestion of psilocybin mushrooms
Research and first-hand experiences show that animal cruelty crimes occur alongside child abuse, domestic violence and gang activity
Violent crime overall rose by 3.9 percent, though the total was still lower than levels from five and 10 years ago, in 2011 and 2006
The Court’s decision in Utah v. Strieff may have left the wrong impression for police officers concerning the limits of Terry stops
Undersheriff says the death appears to be accidental and possibly a drowning
A Pennsylvania man says his son defended himself with a machete during a home invasion and used it to cut off one suspect’s hand
Jim and Doug discuss how this kind of “harm reduction strategy” can actually have an adverse effect on public safety
The burglaries have become a flashpoint in the debate over Proposition 47, a part of a prison reform package that reduced some nonviolent crimes from felonies to misdemeanors
Agency administrators had been operating under the assumption that getting to the call quicker can increase arrest rates
Police officials have various theories about what’s behind the body count: 64 homicides by the end of April
The stop and frisk tool for law enforcement has been particularly useful in addressing violent crime problems of a recurring nature and protecting officer safety
VISTA WiFi integrates in-car and body-worn camera systems allocating the recording decision to any camera within a synched group.
Learn how Hitachi’s Visualization Platform helps agencies make sense of the myriad data and video collected by officers on the street and third-party camera systems.
Grant funding for new technology systems is competitive, but these tips will help make your submission stand out.
An 11-year old boy thwarted a would-be burglar by shooting him in the leg
Survey of officers provides insight into today’s environment for LE
Learn how to win grant money for much-needed predictive crime analytics software
Police1 recently asked readers if they were capable of turning video evidence into usable intelligence to solve crime. Here’s what we learned.
Whether via automated software tools or investigators digging into the internet manually, social media has become an invaluable investigative resource
Jim and Doug examine how the program came to be, and issue a call to action for podcast listeners
Doug and Jim also discuss issues related to marijuana legalization and stop and frisk
Bait technology is being used to thwart property crimes and build goodwill with the community
Identifying the most effective arguments to present to a suspect during an interrogation will help you elicit the truth
Here’s a summary of federal funding in 2016 for law enforcement agencies
A man who had been evicted from a Philadelphia homeless shelter for being intoxicated fatally shot one employee and wounded another
The SLCPD used core components of CompStat to succeed, such as timely and accurate information, rapid deployment of resources, effective tactics and relentless follow-up
Gaps in information sharing led the DOJ to push for agencies to adopt intelligence-led policing. Here are a few examples of agencies that have deployed the strategy.
The department pointed to reductions in overall crimes for the fourth straight year and the lowest number of violent crimes since the 1960s
The officer found that the woman was a mother who wanted to bake her child a birthday cake
Murders are up 12 percent this year and shooting victims have increased 20 percent
The resulting images and information are uploaded to a database which connects national law-enforcement agencies
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