Resources
IACP's resources are aimed at helping law enforcement executives do their jobs better and cover a variety of topics, including professional development, leadership, management, and supervision, as well as hot topics such as ethics.
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Building Trust, Reducing Crime: What Procedural Justice Training Means For Hot Spot Policing
This brief discusses how procedural justice training at crime hot spots can reduce arrests, improve officer behavior, and lower crime without eroding public trust. Adapted…
Body-Worn Cameras in Policing: Evidence, Gaps, and Guidance for Leaders
This brief discusses how body-worn cameras (BWCs) have mixed and limited effects on police and community member behavior. BWCs may reduce complaints and provide evidentiary…
Mapping Crime by Space and Time: A Smarter Way to Target Violence in Cities
This brief discusses how breaking crime data down by both location and time of day can make predictions more accurate and help police direct resources…
Shared Principles of Agreement — Public Safety Leadership Convening
The IACP is pleased to share a new resource, Shared Principles of Agreement — Public Safety Leadership Convening, developed to support constructive dialogue and strengthen…
Rethinking Crisis Response: Challenges and Strategies for Police-Led Multidisciplinary Teams
This brief discusses how police-led multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) can improve the effectiveness of care and reduce officer strain, but they also require structure and collaboration…
Service Via Video: Reducing Response Times, Lowering Costs, and Improving Public Trust
This brief discusses how virtual response serves as an innovative avenue for police to efficiently respond to nonemergency calls, reduce costs, and improve community-police relations…
Identifying Risk Profiles: The Underlying Patterns of Officer Victimization
This brief discusses how assaults against officers aren't random occurrences, but instead typically follow distinct patterns. The study demonstrates that most assaults on officers consist…
Policing Moving Hotspots: Reducing Crime on Public Transit Through Targeted Patrol
This brief discusses how moving hotspots occur when crime is concentrated on public transit as it travels through specific street segments, and that they can…
Building Legitimacy and Cooperation Through Fairness: Findings From 30 Countries
This brief discusses that procedural justice is a consistent foundation of police legitimacy across many national contexts, and that fair treatment may be especially important…
Patrol Canines
Addressing the appropriate use of patrol canines in police operations, handler and canine selection, training and certification standards, deployment procedures, supervision, documentation, and accountability measures…
