Law Enforcement Leadership-Police Officer Training

It’s the 200-pound brute cohabitating every police management office across the states: the budget gorilla. This year’s roundtable proves that some curse words have more than four letters, and the big one of these last years, and according to...

Article • December 2nd, 2010

How Fads Run Local Police

There are good reasons why police and politics should never be mixed.

Article • November 23rd, 2010

When Do I Get Promoted?

Hey, the younger guys are getting stripes, where is mine…

Article • October 27th, 2010

Sheriff! Your Jail Is On Fire!

This article seeks to enlighten readers on prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery steps that should be considered to confront jail fires.

Article • October 5th, 2010

Training Your Agency for the Future

Any training can be delivered, but you need to be sure that the training is meeting your agency's needs and goals.

Article • September 28th, 2010

Revealing our new look

Each month in Law Enforcement Technology , we aim to provide you with the most up-to-date news, emerging trends and companies that provide innovative, maintainable and easy-to-use products for law enforcement. We'd be remiss not to turn that...

Article • September 1st, 2010

Teach Our Traditions

If a recruit attends a police memorial or funeral and has to ask why we do something, we have failed this recruit.

Article • August 24th, 2010

Techno Chiefs

Have you wondered if some departments are becoming too techno reliant?

Article • July 27th, 2010

Ends Justify Means Every Time

A basic tenet of police ethics is that the ends do not justify the means . But police deception is premised on a deal struck by our courts that some lying (bad means) is justified by the good ends of catching criminals.

Article • June 21st, 2010

One Admin Challenge

While we think about scheduling as quite a simple task, we see that it can easily be quite daunting when all of the other logistical considerations are thrown in the mix.

Article • December 15th, 2009

Car Bombs

All the training and knowledge accumulation in the world will not keep you or your community safe if you or your agency suffers from the it won't happen here mindset. Threat recognition begins with realization leading to actualization.

Article • August 24th, 2009

Assessment Centers, Pt.2

Knowing how assessment centers work, and understanding the impact they can have is important whether you like them or not.

Article • July 8th, 2009

A matter of balance

While hammering down one city's 2009-2010 budget, the city's manager lobbed a few verbal grenades at the police department. The manager charged city police with being bloated and said police received a disproportionate share of the city's...

Article • March 1st, 2009

Safeguarding integrity

In the article Safeguarding sensitive data," Law Enforcement Technology editor Tabatha Wethal references an interesting statement by Tennessee Highway Patrol Col. Mike Walker, who talks about trooper values. Walker states: In...

Article • February 1st, 2009

Top 10 tips for 2009

Every year about this time I write about the things you can do to make your department better. Because law enforcement agencies are finding it harder and harder to stay afloat in an expensive, high-tech world with fewer and fewer...

Article • January 1st, 2009

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