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Policing in the 21st Century

Recognizing the profound challenges confronting the law enforcement community, the IACP has launched the Policing in the 21st Century initiative. The IACP has developed a series of comprehensive resources for law enforcement agencies that are faced with policing in the new economy.

Recently, in cooperation with SAS, the IACP hosted the first in a series of nationwide law enforcement webinars that will allow police chiefs throughout the country to exchange ideas and best practices and discuss the challenges they are facing and the solutions they have identified. The IACP is also developing an online resource to assist police chiefs as they strive to identify new solutions to meet the array of challenges confronting them. The web portal will include an e-library of resources addressing contemporary policing issues and challenges, as well as a technical assistance center.

View the IACP press release here.

21st Century Policing Initiative E-Library

Law Enforcement Survey Findings

As part of the Policing in the 21st Century initiative, and in order to gain a better understanding of the challenges confronting law enforcement agencies, the IACP also surveyed and held roundtable discussions with over 400 law enforcement executives. A full report on these findings can be found here.

Key findings:

  • Over 55 percent of respondents said that the new economy presented a serious or severe problem to their agency.
  • Over 85 percent of agencies reported that they were forced to reduce their budget over the last year with nearly half of agencies surveyed reported that they had to lay-off or furlough staff in the past 12 months
  • More than half of respondents reported that they had to reduce their budgets in the prior year by five percent or more; a quarter had to reduce their budgets by more than 10 percent.
  • 94 percent of respondents said that we are seeing a “new reality” in American policing developing.

IACP Policing in the 21st Century Webinar

As noted above, in cooperation with SAS, a leader in business analytics software and services, the IACP hosted the first in a series of nationwide law enforcement webinars that will allow police chiefs throughout the country to exchange ideas and best practices and discuss the challenges they are facing and the solutions they have identified. You may view the webinars here:

http://www.sas.com/apps/webnet/webcast-viewer-2.0/index.jsp?index=wc_sa20apr11

http://www.sas.com/apps/webnet/webcast-viewer-2.0/index.jsp?index=wc_sa11aug11

There were many questions that IACP members submitted for the webinar and there was not enough time to answer them all live. Click here for a sampling of the questions that were not able to be answered live.