Traditional Internal Affairs Investigations Traditionally, most law enforcement agencies dedicate the majority of their internal affairs resources to investigating citizen complaints. A complaint registered against an officer may be a significant indicator of police misconduct and should always be thoroughly [...]
Read Part I of This Article Here Administrative Financial Disclosures Several police departments throughout the United States have required detectives who are assigned to gang investigations, narcotics, and money laundering investigations to disclose their personal financial information to the [...]
Part I | Part II | Part III Social Media Issues impacting Law Enforcement In Part I of this three part series, Lou Reiter examined the issues facing a number of states which have enacted legislation governing the use of social media. [...]
BACKGROUND The National Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) system was established in the 1920’s-30’s.The International Chiefs of Police Association (IACP) formulated a committee, which developed a system for capturing crime statistics to enable law enforcement agencies to measure their effectiveness and [...]
©2011 Stephen Campbell, Providence, RI, Police Department, Major (Retired), Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute (LLRMI.com). Managing a police department is a lot like managing your health. Experts in the fields of health care and law enforcement both agree that [...]
©2011 Public Agency Training Council Dr. Robert J. Cipriano Jr., Florida Licensed Psychologist Steven Rothlein, Expert Witness, Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute Stigma is a significant factor that the general public experiences whenever the words “psychological treatment” is introduced. [...]
©2010 Steve Rothlein, Legal & Liability Risk Management Institute, Miami-Dade Police Department (Retired) TRADITIONAL INTERNAL AFFAIRS INVESTIGATIONS: Traditionally, most law enforcement agencies dedicate the majority of their internal affairs resources to investigating citizen complaints. A complaint registered against an officer [...]
The identification of persons named in arrest warrants at times presents unique challenges to law enforcement agencies and officers. Two competing concerns exist. On one hand the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits unreasonable seizures of persons and [...]
The identification of persons named in arrest warrants at times presents unique challenges to law enforcement agencies and officers. Two competing concerns exist. On one hand the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits unreasonable seizures of persons and [...]
There exists a serious threat to law enforcement, which can compromise the high ethical standards and values our profession has achieved during the past several decades. This threat is typically referred to as “Noble Cause Corruption.” Traditional corruption is defined [...]