Previous application requirements and shifting community priorities provide some hints
COPS Grant Funding in Fiscal Year 2021: What Can We Expect?
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Category: Law Enforcement
Nonfatal Injuries in Law Enforcement: Understanding & Preventing Resistance-Related Injuries
With better data, leaders can develop better solutions
Protecting Officers from Themselves: Tactics for Self-Control
Police training should include an ethic of moral policing
Using Legitimacy as a Guide to Police Reform
Whether use of force is legally justified in a given situation is not the only consideration
Investigation by the Numbers Supports Valid Search
The deputy started with reasonable suspicion to stop the suspect
Open Door Late at Night Doesn’t Justify Entry into Home
Court: “Reasonable police officers acting as community caretakers should have left the home”
K9 Deployment and Bite Duration Were Proper
The court credited the officers for their measured force options
Intelligence Gathering in Correctional Facilities: Mission & Process
A federal RICO case illustrates the mission and process of gathering intelligence on security threat groups
Welfare Check Leads to Valid Frisk and Seizure of Gun
Court: The deputy’s actions were reasonably related to community caretaking
Learning How to Think Critically in Public Safety
Are we teaching personnel how to think—or simply how to do?
Improper Protective Sweep Invalidates Search Warrant
The court of appeals held there was no basis for the protective sweep
Stop Leads to Voluntary Encounter, Dog Sniff and Drug Seizure
The officer performed what the court described as “the old highway patrol ‘two-step’”