A FREE Calibre Press Panel Discussion March is Women's History Month. In honor of this celebration, join three of Calibre Press's female instructors -- Deputy Chief Cyndy Velazquez (ret.), Chief Carole Presson and Capt. Michelle Tavarez--for a FREE, lively panel discussion on March 7, 10AM - Noon Central. Our impressive panel will [...]
Conventional approaches don’t fully meet the needs of law enforcement trainees. By Jason Shea for Police1.com We all want to ensure recruits have the edge they need to succeed in law enforcement academies, right? But let’s take a moment to ponder this. Could our conventional approach to aerobic training be [...]
By Leonard Sipes Source: Law Enforcement Today Originally written for Crime in America. Republished with permission. It’s safe to say, based on polling data, that the great majority of the 54 million yearly police-citizen contacts, interactions were mostly positive which almost seems almost impossible considering the nature of the [...]
From the Lexipol Team Due to legislative actions, court decisions and gradual shifts in best practices, terminology and technologies, law enforcement policy is in constant flux. At Lexipol, our subject matter experts are always on the lookout for new developments in federal and state statutes, regulations, case law and accreditation standards [...]
By Ken Wallentine for Lexipol Thomas v. City of Harrisburg, 88 F.4th 275 (3rd Cir. 2023) A municipal police officer and a probation officer saw Terrelle Thomas, along with another man, leave a bar and get into a vehicle as passengers. The police officer conducted a traffic stop and noted Thomas [...]
BJS encourages comments for 60 days through April 12, 2024, on the proposed extension, with change, of a currently approved collection, Survey of Sexual Victimization (SSV). Your comments on BJS’s request to the Office of Management and Budget, which is published in the Federal Register, should respond to one or [...]
The COPS Office is pleased to release a new publication: Operationalizing Proactive Community Engagement: A Framework for Police Organizations This guide is intended to present police leaders with a framework for institutionalizing community engagement strategies to improve their personnel’s willingness to increase proactive, positive interactions with the community. It [...]
Reprinted from Calibre Press In last week’s Calibre Press newsletter, Instructor Kelly DeVoll discussed the critical importance of scanning while engaged with a subject. Kelly’s “priority of scan” sequence is hands, waist, face, head-to-toe. Numerous officers wrote in to share their own thoughts. Here’s what a few of them had [...]
Seventh Circuit United States v. Hays, No. 22-3294 (7th Cir. 2023) In this case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reviewed an appeal related to a Fourth Amendment issue involving a warrantless search of a vehicle. The defendant, Charles Hays, was stopped by the police [...]
BJS updated its Law Enforcement Agency Reported Crime Analysis Tool (LEARCAT) with recently released 2022 crime data and refreshed 2021 data. LEARCAT provides access to incident-based data on crimes recorded by law enforcement using data from the FBI’s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), as well as contextual information from [...]
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