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My Technology Can: Help You Recruit More Qualified and Dedicated Officers

Breacher Recruiting’s BreacherCRM software streamlines and simplifies the law enforcement hiring process.

January 22, 2024

Baltimore Police Complying with Key Consent Decree Requirements, DOJ Says

If the court grants the motion, BPD must maintain compliance with the provisions for one year before the court can terminate these sections of the consent decree.

January 17, 2024

Interim Chief Art Acevedo Resigning from Denver-Area PD

Acevedo joined the Aurora Police Department in December 2022 and will leave Monday. He said during a news conference Tuesday that he had hoped to stay in Aurora for two to three years.

January 17, 2024

California Agencies Want Legislation to Reduce Court Time for Officers

Redding Police Chief Brian Barner has long thought it was odd that community service officers are allowed to interview witnesses to crimes, but state law prohibits them from testifying about what they were told.

January 12, 2024

Phoenix Asks DOJ Not to Put Police Department Under Federal Oversight

An attorney for the city sent a letter to the Justice Department on Thursday requesting a "technical assistance letter," saying Phoenix had demonstrated "a powerful commitment to reform, a commitment that warrants a different approach from the DOJ.

January 11, 2024

After Phoenix-Area Sheriff’s Resignation, County Board to Pick Interim Successor

Sheriff Paul Penzone announced that he planned to resign in October and submitted his letter in December

January 11, 2024

Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone is resigning and the county board will pick an interim successor.

NYPD’s Longest Serving Chief of Department Dies at 73

Esposito's death was announced by Mayor Eric Adams, who took to social media to remember the man he describes as "the definition of public service."

January 10, 2024

Memphis Police Chief Faces Uphill Battle to Keep Job

This is not the final vote on Davis’ reappointment — the matter must go to the full city council for a final vote in regular session, in two weeks. There are signs Davis will not have the support to keep her job.

January 10, 2024

Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn C.J. Davis could soon be looking for another post. A city council committee voted not to reappoint her this week. She faces another vote from the full council later this month.

DOJ Issues Guidance on Specialized Police Teams

DOJ wants mayors and police chiefs to assess whether such specialized units are even necessary to solve community problems, to take care that members assigned to them have clean work and disciplinary histories, and to ensure that they're supervised.

January 10, 2024

Change in New York Civil Service Law Could Help Agencies Hire Officers

The change in the law eliminates the requirement that officers be “reachable” on the county’s civil service list.

January 10, 2024

Procedures & Policies

DOJ and Consent Decree Monitor Praise Albuquerque PD for Reforms

Monitors tracking civilian oversight, one of the largest remaining roadblocks in reaching full compliance, called it “a mess” that was being cleaned up, and advocates applauded the work done by the department to come so far, so fast.

January 9, 2024

Law Enforcement Appreciation Day Recognized Nationwide

Jan. 9 was established as a day for saying “thank you” to law enforcement back in 2015 through the work of Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.) and other police supporting groups.

January 9, 2024

The canopy at the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas featured a message of support for local officers.

Philadelphia PD Launches Recruiting Campaign

"We're looking to get out there, get in the field with officers on foot and bikes," Captain John Walker said. "But, we can't do that if we don't have the people."

January 8, 2024

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Nearly All of Kansas Tribal Agency’s Officers Walk Off Job

The police force consisted of a chief, a lieutenant and two regular officers, according to the Tribe’s Attorney General and General Counsel Napoleon Crews.

January 4, 2024

Philadelphia PD Fires DEI Officer

Leslie Marant, who began her job in April 2022, was fired by then-acting Commissioner John M. Stanford at a 10:30 a.m. meeting, who said that Bethel would be restructuring the department and would no longer need her services, a source said.

January 4, 2024

Leslie Marant was the first diversity inclusion and equity officer at the Philadelphia Police Department. She was fired Jan. 3 by outgoing Commissioner John M. Stanford as part of a restructuring plan.

Conflict Between Mayor and Police Commission Derails Search for New Oakland Chief

The reset came days after Mayor Sheng Thao, who will make the decision, outright rejected a controversial shortlist of three finalists for the job that the civilian Oakland Police Commission had presented to her office.

January 3, 2024

Indicted Arkansas Sheriff Ordered to Give Up Law Enforcement Duties

The indictment and an earlier sworn statement by an FBI agent say the sheriff tried to get federal agents to stop investigating a drug dealer who had provided the sheriff with methamphetamine.

December 20, 2023

LAPD Working to Allow Non-Citizen DACA Officers to Carry Off Duty

The topic of DACA recipients working as police officers is complicated and raises many legal and safety questions, including whether a non-citizen should ever arrest a US citizen and what would happen if a DACA migrant suddenly loses their legal status.

December 15, 2023

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