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I just got off the phone with Jeff Chudwin, Law Officer columnist and chief of police for the Village of Olympia Fields, Ill. I was asking the impossible: "Chief, give ...

A few months back I was conducting early morning traffic enforcement in the area around an elementary school. Despite my polite and professional demeanor, a couple of people obviously took ...

Despite recent economic data suggesting the worst may be over, the economic situation in our country remains dire. Citizens are hurting, and so are the state and local institutions that ...

The IACP s 116th conference featured hundreds of vendors, thousands of attendees, dozens of classes and myriad networking opportunities. As the conference closed, attendees departed with a lot of valuable ...

In the weeks following Sept. 11, California firefighter Brett Hill was moved to create a lasting tribute to the responders who died at Ground Zero: a commemorative shoulder patch to ...

LawOfficer.com Editor s Note:Drunk drivers continue to kill almost as many civilians and on-duty cops as firearms. It definitely is in our best interest to make the best effort possible ...

Texas alone has approximately 108 licensed academies and many more training providers, and every state has some model of Peace Officer Standards Training (P.O.S.T). Over the course of my career, ...

I was starting my shift at midnight on Super Bowl Sunday, a cold February night, when the dispatcher requested units respond to a hotel in the far north end of ...

Evidence collection processes have sometimes determined the outcome of criminal proceedings. However, the crime scenes of today are making the process more difficult with the potential recovery of chemicals, explosives, ...

It was an otherwise normal morning in September. The year was 1981 and I was serving as a young Marine with the Diplomatic Security Battalion. A terrorist intelligence report had ...