Earlier this year, I wrote about the City of Roseville’s participation in the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE). The Police Department has been an active member of Roseville’s team and we directly helped facilitate city discussion on a current project. The Roseville City Council asked Public Works Director Marc Culver for a report […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Rick Mathwig Chief of Police Roseville Police Department, Minnesota

One of the most visible yet most misunderstood campus safety measures that UWPD facilitates is the issuance of timely warnings and emergency alerts. Required under the federal Clery Act, timely warnings and emergency alerts (we call themCrime Warnings and WiscAlerts on our campus) are intended to alert our campus community members when specific crimes have […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Kristen Roman Chief of Police Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Police Department

The early onset of darkness over the greatest state in the nation puts me to bed earlier than I would like. There was that time in life where staying up late was, for some reason, an honor. Now it’s stupid. If I had just taken advantage of all those naps my mother said were good […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Bangor Police Department Authored by Sergeant Tim Cotton Bangor, Maine

We have been working diligently to combat violent crime in our city. What happened on Sunday morning was the epitome of senseless violence: in the course of about an hour, one suspect killed three people in three different places and shot two more in South Kansas City and Raytown. A 4-year-old child was among the […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Richard C. Smith Chief of Police Kansas City Police Department, Missouri

I’ve heard this question a few times this past month while visiting with area city councils about their law enforcement coverage. It’s a fair question . . . When I worked patrol I would make my rounds in whatever town I was working in, respond to calls, get information from citizens about problem neighborhoods or […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Scott Rose Sheriff Dodge County Sheriff's Office, Minnesota

For the past two years, I have been pursuing a second Master’s Degree from the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security (CHDS). I pursued this degree so I could be a better chief for my department and become more educated on homeland security issues in order to keep our city safer. When […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Kristen Ziman Chief of Police Aurora Police Department, Illinois

Red Ribbon Week runs October 23rd-31st, 2018. Red Ribbon Week began in remembrance of DEA Agent Enrique Camarena who was kidnapped and murdered in Mexico in 1985. Agent Camarena had been working undercover for the DEA and was key in developing information that led to the eradication of large-scale narcotics manufacturing operations in Mexico. Mexican […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Arcadia Police Department Arcadia, California

In 2016, Kansas recorded the most homicides in our states history, causing many of us in the criminal justice system to be deeply concerned. In 2017, Topeka, with a population of 127,000 reported 30 homicides, an all-time high for our state’s capitol. Tulsa, Oklahoma, a city close in population size to Wichita, reported a record […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Gordon Ramsay Chief of Police Wichita Police Department, Kansas

You may have already noticed officers sporting visible tattoos on their arms as we authorized them as of September 1. The U.S. culture is ever changing and law enforcement needs to adapt with it. It seems nearly everyone from 18 to 40 years old is sporting a tattoo of some sort. The people we hire […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Rick Mathwig Chief of Police Roseville Police Department, Minnesota

Factual Post Alert (FPA)—not to be confused with the news alerts, updates, bulletins, and social media posts which most of us depend on to keep ourselves informed. Maine’s violent crime rate is holding steady at the bottom of the list of all 50 states. The bottom being the optimum spot in this case. PS. Vermont […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Bangor Police Department Authored by Sergeant Tim Cotton Bangor, Maine