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A Tale of Three Cities—How Kansas City, Atlanta, and Philadelphia are preparing for the World Cup
... Kansas City, Missouri, to Riverside and Kansas City, Kansas. And Algeria is in Lawrence, Kansas, where the University of Kansas is. I don’t think we’re escorting anybody out to Lawrence. Wexler: How ...
How police are addressing juvenile takeovers
... so prior to the curfew kicking in, we’ll have our officers start reminding everybody that the curfew starts at 10:00. Security footage captures a teen takeover at a Sacramento convenience store. ...
Real-time crime centers, violent crime, and immigration enforcement
... or stranded motorist, we can see cameras in the area and determine if somebody really is there or that circumstance exists. If we find that’s not the case, it keeps them from having to go. “Our detectives ...
Chief Brian O’Hara discusses a tense week in Minneapolis
... June 3 raid wasn’t actually an immigration raid, but HSI was there, the FBI was there, and somebody was there with an ICE windbreaker on. It immediately became a very volatile situation. We had to respond ...
Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill discusses the unique challenges of policing the world’s entertainment capital
... neighborhoods. Wexler: Is that one of the key things that you did that has impacted your clearance rate? Sheriff McMahill: I believe that's at the very top of the list. Nobody knows a neighborhood ...
London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley on crime reduction strategies, addressing violence against women, the use of facial recognition, and deploying drones
... cases in the 1980s. We have a team-based approach. We have quite an old computer system, but it’s very systematic and thorough. And we put great detectives on these cases. If you kill somebody in London, you’re almost ...
Discussing the National Guard, immigration enforcement, school shootings, and real-time crime centers at our Town Hall Meeting in Denver
... officers knock on doors in the community to notify everybody about the criminal warrant. We also share on social media that it has been a criminal warrant. Even with all those efforts, there are still ...
MPD leaders should remain in charge of their police department
... relationships with their communities. Their members wear nametags, and most have body-worn cameras. Many agencies provide specialized training on the history, culture, and expectations of their communities. ...
Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension Superintendent Drew Evans discusses last weekend’s political assassination and the challenge of managing a multijurisdictional investigation
... security for any representatives or senators, and we really need to ensure the local jurisdictions know exactly where everybody lives, and there’s a protocol for a situation like this. These were enterprising ...
The important role of the federal government in supporting policing
... provided the field with information about eyewitness identification, electronic control weapons, body-worn cameras, reducing gun violence, responding to the COVID pandemic, and much more. Many of these ...
Shifting traffic enforcement priorities and creating a culture of responsibility
... in connection with the December 9th incident is hard to watch. What makes this incident even more troubling is that nobody did anything to stop it. I don’t believe that people who enter challenging ...
Street takeovers are a national problem
... seizing vehicles, and that was really successful, but we found that some of these cars were stolen or belonged to other people – somebody was driving grandma’s car or mama’s car – so the ability to keep ...
Chief Mike Sullivan discusses DOJ civil rights investigations and lessons learned in Louisville, Baltimore, and Phoenix
... and be fair and consistent in their actions. We are now blessed with body-worn cameras, which we weren’t blessed with when I started in this profession. We can pull small subsets of camera footage, do ...
Restraint fatalities, a high-profile incident in Louisville, and PERF mourns the loss of one of its star instructors
... to enter Valhalla following an unrelated fatal crash, which led to dozens of officers arriving on the scene to direct traffic.” Det. Gillis did not activate his body-worn camera before the incident, ...
Policing and Artificial Intelligence—Promise and Peril
... facial recognition to body-worn camera video processing and more mundane technologies like automated report writing, call triaging, and even answering non-emergency calls. As Miami Police Department ...
New PERF report examines how agencies are using body-worn cameras
January 6, 2024 New PERF report examines how agencies are using body-worn cameras PERF members, Happy new year! I hope you all had a chance to relax and spend time with family during the ...
Arbitration, traffic enforcement, and shootings by federal officers
... under policies that are as restrictive as local law enforcement agencies’ policies. They see one arm of the Justice Department hold local agencies accountable for issues like body-worn camera usage, use-of-force ...
Trending2Dec23
... An unexpected crisis can present an opportunity to implement a new policy or program. Any complicated new policy or program should be piloted first. When agencies began using body-worn cameras, many ...
Trending28Oct23
... surveillance on the individual until they stop. If the individual continues to drive in an outrageous fashion, through red lights, then everybody gets pulled off. Spike strips are also an intervention ...
Trending7Oct23
... sides. But I think police will come to recognize the importance of strengthening the working relationship with the media as a way to share officers’ perspectives, as they have embraced body-worn cameras. ...
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