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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 Ronnie GarrettMay 3, 2018

Lincoln (NE) Police Department

The Lincoln PD partners with mental health providers to get REAL about helping individuals in a mental health crisis.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 3, 2018

Interviews Start in Search for LAPD's Next Chief

The Police Commission, the civilian panel that oversees the LAPD, began conducting closed-door interviews Wednesday morning, a source familiar with the process confirmed.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 30, 2018

Police Association Files FOIA Requests on Chicago's Plan to Include the ACLU and BLM in Police Oversight

The FOIA request seeks, among other documents, any communications that the City of Chicago has had regarding the qualifications and possible ramifications of these activist groups being placed in an oversight capacity of the safety of Chicago police officers.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 25, 2018

New Arizona Law Provides Officers with PTSD Treatment

HB 2502 was drafted in response to the suicide of Phoenix Officer Craig Tiger and titled the “The Officer Craig Tiger Act.” In 2012 Tiger shot and killed a subject who was assaulting him and his partner as well as other citizens in a north Phoenix park with a club. He attempted suicide exactly one year to the date of the shooting. He later committed suicide in 2014. It is believed his death was the result of undiagnosed and untreated PTSD.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 18, 2018

Agencies Engage in "Wage War" to Fill Recruit Ranks

Highway Patrol Col. Mike Rapich has observed what he calls a “wage war” among agencies competing for personnel. “We’re in a really aggressive recruiting effort,” he says, “probably more so than I’ve seen in the 25 years I’ve been with the agency.”

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 11, 2018

Illinois Town Lays Off 13 Officers

Overall, the 40 cuts represent about a quarter of the city’s police union members, 40 percent of its firefighters union and 55 percent of its non-sworn police personnel, union officials said.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 9, 2018

Arizona Officer Pulls Over Chief for Traffic Infraction

A Tucson officer pulled over a dark-colored SUV for a red-light infraction only to learn that the driver was his boss, Tucson police Chief Chris Magnus.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 9, 2018

Domestic Abuse Calls Lethal for Officers

From 1988 to 2016, 136 officers were killed while responding to domestic disturbances such as family arguments, FBI data show. By comparison, 80 were killed during a drug-related arrest in the same period.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 9, 2018

Some in Chicago Want Commission to Have Firing Authority Over Police

Backers of a long-shot proposal to give an elected board power to investigate and fire Chicago police officers threatened last week to force a vote on their idea, resurfacing a third option into an ongoing debate about civilian oversight of city police.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 6, 2018

Charlotte Chief, School Board Members At Odds Over Metal Detectors in Schools

School Board members Ericka Ellis-Stewart and Carol Sawyer said the plan could make schools feel like detention centers.

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