Report Writing

Police officers can’t risk getting caught up in either politics or misguided social experiments

Critics worry the measure would inspire selective report writing, while police unions argued the change would create more accurate reports

At least five agencies sent up to 325 federal officers a day to Portland from June through Sept. 30, 2020

Why words matter when we describe the incident

Why well-documented descriptions of what each witness said needs to be in your police report

If your passive voice sentence does not fall into any of these eight tactics, change your sentence to active

One tip to improve your report writing that will help reduce case turndowns and liability

Artificial intelligence is changing the way police write reports

Why you should keep it simple

A step-by-step guide to configuring Microsoft’s spelling and grammar checker

Tactics keep you alive, but report writing keeps you out of trouble

Police report writing is a keystone to any investigation and prosecution of offenders

An officer’s pocket notebook is on the way toward becoming a thing of the past

Take the time needed to prepare the type of descriptive arrest report that will permit you to remember the incident

Report writing is not a chore, it is the best tool for avoiding lost cases, lost lawsuits and in this current era, lost careers