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More IACP 2025 From the Show Floor

Watch expanded coverage of IACP 2025 as the POLICE Magazine team walks the aisles at the expo and shares what we found interesting on display for chiefs from across the country and around the world this week in Denver, Colorado.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 5, 2017

Baltimore at 'Tipping Point' Because Too Few Officers on Streets, Union Says

The Baltimore Police Department routinely deploys too few patrol officers to be effective and has reached a "tipping point of being unable to protect the city and its citizens" as a result, according to the union that represents the department's rank-and-file officers.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 4, 2017

Dallas City Manager Says It's Near "Impossible" to Hire 451 Officers as Planned

Dallas City Manager A.C. Gonzalez called the plan to hire 451 new police officers this year "extremely difficult if not impossible" in a memo to City Council members.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 4, 2017

Video: Officer Overseeing Chicago Police Reforms Named Oakland Chief

The mayor has named Anne Kirkpatrick, a former police chief of Spokane, WA, as the chief for Oakland, sources told the East Bay Times.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 3, 2017

Chicago Had More 2016 Murders Than NYC, L.A. Combined

One of the most violent years in Chicago history ended with a sobering tally: 762 homicides, the most in two decades in the city and more than New York and Los Angeles combined.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 29, 2016

Video: GA Chief was Kidnapped as Child, Says It Shaped Who He is Today

“I honestly didn't think I would survive,” Register said, telling the story of how three men kidnapped him and placed him in a shallow grave.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 28, 2016

Video: Authorities Say No Link in Rash of Post-Christmas Mall Incidents

Police in Aurora, Colorado, which saw one of the largest disturbances in the country involving an "unruly crowd" of around 500 people, on Tuesday appealed to the public for help tracking down videos that might show some of those involved.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 22, 2016

Ex-L.A. County Sheriff's Obstruction Trial Ends in Mistrial

A mistrial was declared Thursday in the corruption case against former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca after a jury failed to reach a verdict on charges that he tried to obstruct an FBI investigation into allegations that deputies abused jail inmates.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 20, 2016

LAPD Deputy Chief Named New San Francisco Chief

LAPD Deputy Chief William "Bill" Scott, the department’s highest-ranking African American officer, has been appointed chief of the San Francisco Police Department.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 15, 2016

AG Lynch Pushing for Baltimore PD Consent Decree Before Trump Takes Office

Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Thursday that she is hopeful Department of Justice and Baltimore officials will agree to a consent decree governing police reform within the next month — and before President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office — but that reaching a deal depends on continued cooperation and good faith negotiations on the part of the city.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 15, 2016

Phoenix PD Assigning Detectives, Sergeants to Patrol Duty

Phoenix Police leaders have announced the department plans to reassign detectives and sergeants to street patrols in an effort to manage a continuing shortage of officers.

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