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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 WriterOctober 9, 2020

Major Cities Struggling to Hire Police Chiefs

Eighteen chiefs from major cities have resigned, retired, been pushed out or fired since protests and increased calls for police accountability and reform began after George Floyd’s death in May.

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Articlesby Doug WyllieOctober 7, 2020

C.S.I. Aurora: Forensics, Leadership, and the Batman Movie Shooting

Lt. Tim DuFour has served in forensics for three decades. He has seen thousands of crime scenes but none like what he encountered when he arrived at the Century 16 Movie Theater.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 30, 2020

Assaults on LAPD Officers Up 156% Over Last Year, Chief Says

During a meeting with the city's civilian-led Police Commission, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore said there were 282 felony assaults against his officers this year, compared with 110 in the same period last year, figures he called "troubling."

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 16, 2020

At Least 20 Chiefs Have Resigned Since May

In states like New York, Georgia, Washington and Virginia, police chiefs were called to resign by their respective communities for their handling of protests as well as for controversial law enforcement incidents involving alleged police brutality and systemic racism.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 16, 2020

Police Leaders Asked Rochester Not to Release Prude Video That Sparked Riots

Deputy Chief Mark Simmons cited the “current climate” in the city and the nation in a June 4 email advising then-Chief La’ron Singletary to press the city’s lawyers to deny a Prude family lawyer’s public records request for the footage of the March 23 encounter that led to his death.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 16, 2020

Minneapolis Council That Wants to Dismantle PD Grills Chief Over Rising Crime Rate

“That may mean you making commitments that might be uncomfortable for some of those constituents that you represent, but if your ultimate goal is to have true community safety, I will tell you right now, we have to work together in that effort,” Chief Medaria Arradondo said.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 9, 2020

Dallas Chief Resigns After Three Years Leading Department

“These past three years have been saturated with a series of unimaginable events that individually and collectively have never happened in the City of Dallas,” Chief Renee Hall wrote.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 9, 2020

SC Chief Stabbed in Face at Home, Suspect in Custody

Chief Franco Fuda said he was at his home when he heard a knock at the door and went outside to meet the suspect. The chief said the suspect told him that Fuda was "going to die today" before stabbing him below the eye with an ice pick. Fuda had been in the process of dialing 911.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 9, 2020

Rochester Police Chief Steps Down Over Attacks on "Character and Integrity"

Chief La'Ron Singletary said in a statement that he was honored to serve the city in upstate New York for 20 years and commended his staff. However, he said the protests and criticism of his handling of the investigation into the March 23 incident "are an attempt to destroy my character and integrity."

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 4, 2020

More Than 175 Current, Former Law Enforcement Officials Endorse Biden for President

The list includes former U.S. attorneys, former state attorneys general, former sheriffs, former police chiefs, and others who touted the former vice president’s experience “keeping communities safe.”

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