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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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Articlesby Dan PasqualeMay 1, 2006

Picture This

Although digital cameras are certainly high-tech and have a lot more power and control than their film predecessors, they are still only as good as the officer holding them.

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Articlesby Mark G. StainbrookMay 1, 2006

Team Leadership

"The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses." - Philip Caldwell

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Articlesby Ramesh NybergApril 1, 2006

How to Testify in Court

From the scene to the stand, prepare to give effective testimony in court.

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Articlesby Dave SmithApril 1, 2006

Junk Science on the Beat

Many police psychologists believe that if you don’t feel bad, something is wrong with you.

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Articlesby Mark G. StainbrookApril 1, 2006

On Leading Cops and Two-Year-Olds

Most of us are leaders in some facet of our lives. Any police officer who doesn't think of himself or herself as a leader is just plain wrong. I doubt that a cop who is also a parent could argue being a parent isn't about leadership, because it most certainly is.

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Articlesby Dean ScovilleMarch 1, 2006

How to Buy a Ballistic Vest

How much is a cop’s safety worth? Despite safety concerns, due to shrinking budgets it’s becoming increasingly common for police departments to require officers to purchase their own body armor. Even when agencies pony up some money for ballistic vests, it’s usually not enough to buy the best of the best—which is what most officers want protecting them from bodily harm.

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Articlesby Mark G. StainbrookFebruary 1, 2006

To Lead and Serve

"The Leader must himself believe that willing obedience beats forced obedience, and that he can get this only by really knowing what should be done." - Xenophon, 360 BC

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ProductsJanuary 1, 2006

Knowledge Computing Intel Lead Module for COPLINK

Knowledge Computing’s new Intel Lead module is an enhanced analytical application that allows law enforcement to more effectively share information and tease qualified leads out of raw data at the earliest stages of criminal and intelligence investigations. This software lets officers enter information from active investigations into a segregated database that continuously searches across multiple databases in the COPLINK node to identify relationships and patterns relevant to an investigation.

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Articlesby Mark G. StainbrookJanuary 1, 2006

Leadership on a (Time) Budget

"Time is neutral, but it can be made the ally of those who will seize it and use it to the full." — Sir Winston Churchill

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Articlesby Mark G. StainbrookDecember 1, 2005

Leadership and Laughter

"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it, and then move on." — Bob Newhart

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