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Inside the Badge by Doug WyllieSeptember 30, 2022

Financial Incentives Meant to Address the Recruiting Crisis Mostly Miss the Mark

As the Los Angeles Police Department continues to look for new ways to attract young officers into its ranks, it has unveiled plans for a program intended to lure recruits to the agency that centers on financial assistance for housing.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 27, 2022

SkyeBrowse Announces Support for DJI Drones

The company says its flagship real-time thermal 3D modeling tools are now being included with DJI’s M3T, M30T, and M300RTK.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 23, 2022

Philadelphia Police Assigned Crimes from Unknown Locations to Disney World

More than 5,000 crimes—including 16 arsons, 50 homicides, and 298 auto thefts—were plotted to Disney World.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 22, 2022

Police in NC Tourist Town Coping with 34% Increase in Violent Crime

Chief David Zack says his department is down more than 100 sworn officers since May 2020, and that they are struggling to maintain visibility while "operating at almost 42% down every single day."

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 22, 2022

Long Island Agency Asks NYPD for Help After Cyber Attack Cripples 911 Center

The NYPD is providing five additional call operators per tour to help handle the volume of calls. Once a call is received, instead of inputting the incident into a computer, the calls are made to dispatch officers.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 22, 2022

VirTra Receives Orders Worth $9 Million from 2 Federal Agencies

The orders consist of VirTra’s flagship V-300 and portable V-100 simulators, recoil kits and magazines, V-Threat-Fire devices and other accessories. Service plans are included as well as training and installation.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 16, 2022

5 Officers Injured in Training Explosion

Several emergency vehicles, including at least two fire trucks, swarmed a large field near SCI - Phoenix in Skippack Township just after 11 a.m. Thursday.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 16, 2022

Commercial UAV Expo Surpasses Prior Records with 232 Exhibitors and 4,100 Registrants

“The turnout was monumental,” said Lee Corkhill, group event director at Diversified Communications (organizer of the Expo). “We surpassed every expectation this year. With a 74% increase of verified registrants over last year and a sold-out exhibit floor."

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Inside the Badge by Doug WyllieSeptember 16, 2022

Citizens Video Recording Police Should be Part of Training

The nexus of cellphone videos, social media posts, and anti-police sentiment will ensure that an increasing number of police-citizen contacts will be either broadcast live on the Internet, recorded for later consumption, or both.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 14, 2022

Minneapolis Use-of-Force Numbers Increase Because of Handcuff Policy Change

The new policy added new categories for reporting certain holds, joint manipulations, nerve pressure points (touch pressure), handcuffing, unholstering/display of a weapon, verbal threats to use less-lethal weapons, less-lethal weapon pointing, verbal threats to use deadly force and firearm pointing, according to the policy.

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