It’s Christmas Eve. While you and your family celebrate the holidays together at home with relatives, we are patrolling your neighborhood tonight – checking your property, your yard, your streets, looking for anything or anyone out of place. We are the ones that venture into the dark, not knowing what if anything awaits us, often […]

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

Thoughts from Chief Sjolander… If you find one of my pennies… Part of my healing journey with PTSD is trying to find ways to “lean into the discomfort” and work on healing my mind and my past. Part of my problem is I’ve worked the same area for most of my career and I see […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Lee Sjolander Chief of Police Kenyon Police Department, Minnesota

An exceptionally large and violent shooting incident in the early morning hours Sunday tested the members of our department on all fronts, from courage to coordination. And I couldn’t be more proud of how we responded. Here’s what happened: At approximately 2:18 a.m. Nov. 27, officers were called to Gregory & Prospect on the sound […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Darryl Forté Chief of Police Kansas City Police Department, Missouri

Last week, I bemoaned the number of firearms stolen from unlocked motor vehicles in Lincoln–noting that about half of those guns were stolen from people who are supposedly firearms-savvy: the holders of concealed carry permits. The form of gun control mentioned in the title of this post is the most basic kind: maintaining control of […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Tom Casady Director of Public Safety Lincoln Department of Public Safety, Nebraska

The month of November has been filled with tragedy for the law enforcement community in the United States. This past Sunday, we experienced yet another line of duty death, bringing this month’s count to ten fatalities. Nine of those ten officer fatalities were caused by gunfire. These deaths continue a horrific trend in 2016. Line […]

FEATURED BLOGGER International Association of Chiefs of Police IACP Alexandria, Virginia

The culture of an organization is a living and breathing organism. You cannot see it in the tangible sense but you can feel the gravitational pull when someone acts outside of the norm. We spend most of our time synchronizing our actions and emulating social cues so we don’t draw attention to ourselves. This is […]

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

I am frequently asked about body worn cameras for police. Do we use them? Are we going to them? That is a very challenging question, more than is apparent on its face. Body worn cameras are seen by many advocates as a method for police accountability. But it isn’t that simple. It is also, and […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Doreen Olko Director of Public Safety Auburn Hills Department of Public Safety, Michigan

There is nothing that piques the attention of a cop (and gets the heart racing) more than hearing an alert tone sounding across all of our communication channels followed by a dispatcher’s announcement of “shots fired.” Regrettably, this has become an all-too-familiar refrain for the City of Madison and a snapshot of the past few […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Michael Koval Chief of Police Madison Police Department, Wisconsin

Last week a 14-year-old girl called 911 to report that her bike had been stolen from outside the Eden Prairie Community Center while she was inside. Officers were able to review surveillance video taken in the area of the bike rack where the girl had placed her bike but not locked it. In the video […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Eden Prairie Police Department Eden Prairie, Minnesota

We also have been watching the news stories from around the country on the “creepy clown” sightings. There was a robbery of a drug store in Brownstown Twp recently where the robber wore a clown disguise. Nothing new about robbers wearing disguises while committing their crimes just not clown disguises–until recently. Troy Police warned pranksters […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Doreen Olko Director of Public Safety Auburn Hills Department of Public Safety, Michigan