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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 WriterFebruary 11, 2010

Miami-Dade PD Green Fund Under Fire

The Florida Environmental Task Force Trust Fund was set up a decade ago to fight environmental crimes. Since then, the fund overseen by the county police department has spent more than $5 million — with half of that coming in the past three years.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 10, 2010

Texas Agencies Recruit Laid-Off Tulsa Officers

Representatives from five Texas law enforcement agencies headed to Tulsa to recruit officers who were among the 127 the Tulsa Police Department has laid off since last fall.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 4, 2010

External Pick for Long Beach (Calif.) PD Chief Causes Controversy

At the announcement of Long Beach, Calif.'s newest police chief, Jim McDonnell said he plans to focus on budget issues and fighting gang crime. But many on the department are more concerned with the fact that the former LAPD veteran of more than 30 years was chosen over internal candidates, including all of LBPD's deputy chiefs.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 3, 2010

Gang Members Increasingly Using Twitter and Facebook to Brag

The nation's gangs are increasingly turning to social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, which is helping law enforcement identify members and learn about their organizations.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 3, 2010

LAPD's Patrol Car Video Plan Hits Snag

A plan to add video cameras to the Los Angeles Police Department's 1,200-vehicle patrol car fleet has been delayed because of problems integrating the cameras with the in-car computers.

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Newsby Staff WriterFebruary 2, 2010

Budget-Strapped L.A. Considers Police Layoffs

As the Los Angeles City Council weighed options to address a $208-million shortfall, Councilman Bernard C. Parks on Monday ordered the city's top budget analyst to prepare a plan that could include layoffs of police officers and firefighters.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 29, 2010

CrimeReports iPhone App Tops 100,000 Downloads in First Month

CrimeReports, publishers of the national crime map, announced its popular iPhone app has had more than 100,000 downloads and has been used to complete more than eight million crime searches across North America in the 30 days since its release.

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Articlesby Melanie BasichJanuary 27, 2010

Stats at a Glance

CrimeReports' eponymous flagship product allows a law enforcement agency to show the public where and when crimes are being committed in their jurisdiction via online maps. The company's Command Central takes this idea one step further by putting these statistics in the hands of the agency itself.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 14, 2010

MySpace Brags Spur Busts of Crips, Bloods Who Terrorized Housing Project

Crips and Bloods drug dealers who terrorized a Manhattan housing project and boasted of their gang ties on MySpace were busted Wednesday, authorities said.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 14, 2010

PoliceMag.com Adds Video Gallery

We've organized it the same way the main site is organized—into topic areas. So you'll be able to browse recent videos on the main page or look within topics such as Gangs, SWAT, Weapons, Recruit, Patrol, Technology, Vehicles, and Women in Law Enforcement.

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