ITAC for Defense

New company supplies tactical accessories intended for the individual officer, soldier or shooter

Dave Spaulding

Electronic Evolution

Police organizations must move toward adopting eMCM systems with IT resources in mind.

Third Degree: Thermal Night Vision

Handheld works in low-visibility conditions & allows the officer to take & transmit images via wireless radio frequency.

Chris Boyd

Change Is Coming

How we do police work is evolving at rapid speed. Expect it & embrace it.

Bullethead

What Kind of Leader Are You?

One does the basics; one facilitates positive change. Which kind of leader are you?

Dale Stockton

Adapt & Overcome

Funded by a $1 million federal grant from the Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI), the Alameda County Sheriff's Office again played host to the third annual multi-faceted test known as, Urban Shield. Its theme: "Train, Adapt and Overcome".

Chris Boyd

The Police Car Reinvented

Who's making cop cars these days & what's the future for patrol vehicle design & operation?

JP Molnar

Anonymous Tips

The Virginia Supreme Court finds that tips from anonymous callers are unreliable and therefore don’t alone provide sufficient cause for pulling over a reported drunk driver.

Laura L. Scarry

So You Married a Cop

Help transition your new recruits & their significant others with a police orientation program.

Dave Grossi

The Less Lethal Instructor

In our perennial quest for a silver bullet—that is, a less lethal weapon that will give officers immediate control, with minimum force deployed—new products, new information & more deranged subjects on the streets will keep less lethal instructors’ hands full in their critical role.

R.K. Miller

Necessary Knife

I learned very early in my police career that a knife is essential. I'd been on the street about a month, working the midnight shift, when I came across a car on its top in a roadside ditch.

Dave Spaulding

Sky's the Limit

The NIJ's Rural Law Enforcement Technology Center (RULETC) symposium is proof that smaller and rural agencies occupy the cutting edge of law enforcement, despite the challenges they uniquely face.

Crawford Coates