Technology

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  • Head (and data) in the cloud

    Most police executives should by now be familiar with the concept of “the cloud.” That is, using the Internet to store and access information, including e-mail, files, images and video, and so on. The question for them, however, is: Should police...

    Article • August 11th, 2011

  • Public Safety Telecommunications and Misunderstandings

    As a telecommunications operator, we do a lot of interpretation. If you don’t believe me, try sorting through the reason someone is calling when they are so drunk they fall out of the phone booth.

    Article • August 9th, 2011

  • ACLU Wants Cell Phone Tracking Info From Hawaiian Police

    The American Civil Liberties Union is asking five law enforcement agencies in Hawaii what procedures they use to track citizens using cell phone location data, part of a nationwide campaign targeting police, sheriffs and other law agencies across the...

    News • August 4th, 2011

  • Kan. Dept. Tweets Dispatch Calls to Inform Public

    Wichita residents will get an online glimpse of what police deal with for one hour Thursday morning through the social media site Twitter.

    News • July 28th, 2011

  • Child death investigation training
    Child death investigation training

    Because unexplained child deaths are not common, law enforcement must rely on good training and good tools

    Article • July 22nd, 2011

  • Two Fla. Cops Suspended, Accused of Explicit Emails

    Two Orlando police officers have been suspended without pay on Tuesday for repeatedly sending sexually-charged emails from schools

    News • July 19th, 2011

  • Video: Mo. Officer Rescues Man From Wreck
    Video: Mo. Officer Rescues Man From Wreck

    Missouri Officer Rescues Man From Fiery Wreck

    News • July 15th, 2011

  • Taking nothing at face value

    The girl in the photo had brilliant blue eyes. So brilliant, in fact, that there was little doubt on the parts of investigators that the body found murdered and stuffed into a well couldn’t have been their victim: The recovered remains had eyes as...

    Article • July 14th, 2011

  • What do you look for in a magazine?

    I have a long time love-hate relationship with plastic AR15 magazines. Back in the early ’90s I jumped onto the bandwagon and picked up some Israeli Orlite and Master Molder Thermold 30-round magazines. I don’t even want to talk about the...

    Article • July 14th, 2011

  • To find Jacob -- Coming Full Circle

    When Theresa Freitas of Haines City, Florida, talks about her son, Jacob Whitt, she sounds like any other proud parent. Jacob, a gangly, rail-thin young man edging quietly into adulthood, moved to Texas one steamy August day in 1997. An avid reader with...

    Article • July 11th, 2011

  • A technological profile: Broadband over analog technology
    A technological profile: Broadband over analog technology

    The future of public safety communications technology has arrived at the Yurok Reservation in Northern California. Thanks to cutting-edge TV white space technology, the Yurok community will soon bring its public safety network into the 21st century...

    Article • July 11th, 2011

  • Help is on the way

    Dispatch: “4 Charlie, 911 Wireless, area of Main and 1st, nothing heard, no answer on call back.” 4 Charlie: “4 Charlie copy.” A few minutes pass. “4 Charlie in the area of the 911 wireless. Nothing seen or heard. Code 4. 10-8.” Each...

    Article • July 11th, 2011

  • Industry insight: Broadband data in public safety

    With more than 80 years of close collaboration with public safety agencies, Motorola Solutions has seen a great deal of change in the way public safety officials communicate each day. Communication and the ability to access information quickly have...

    Article • July 6th, 2011

  • Control The Message, Not The Social

    Tell your own story; show what traditional news media do not; correct what they get wrong.

    Article • June 7th, 2011

  • Dressed to the (ca)nines
    Dressed to the (ca)nines

    In September of 2010 Jeff LaLonde of the Buena Vista Police Department in Saginaw, Mich., and Zeus, his K-9 partner, were hot on a track. It began when a neighboring jurisdiction called in a home invasion. As they learned the premises was overflowing...

    Article • May 23rd, 2011

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