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Tag: Crime Prevention
Command
Kansas City Police Chief Announces Plan to Reduce Violent Crime
The crime plan outlines three main strategies for police to implement: data-informed community engagement (DICE), data-driven deployment and focused deterrence.
April 4, 2024
Technology
LiveView Technologies Helps 2 Cities Reduce Crime
“We needed a security system which could be deployed quickly, and placed in exact locations without the concern of power or internet,” said Corey Lowe, research scientist at the Loss Prevention Research Council. “The LVT Units fulfilled this need.”
August 22, 2023
Patrol
Dave Smith: No Lessons Learned
In the 1980s and 1990s crime was out of control in this country and our leaders did something about it. Now they have abandoned that mission and crime has come back.
January 3, 2023
Patrol
DC Police Unveil Amazon Package Lockers at Two Police Stations
"What we’re hoping is if it works well here as a pilot, we’re going to take it to other districts in the city," says Altieri.
September 1, 2022
Patrol
WI Agency Asks Gun Owners to Send in Spent Casings for Theft Investigations
“The next time you're at the range, please collect two spent shell casings from your firearm,” says Sgt. Dan Knitter, of the Milwaukee Police Department. “Place the casings into an Operation Save-A-Casing envelope or other container and keep them in a safe place.”
July 8, 2022
Patrol
FOP Issues Statement Supporting "Broken Windows" Policing
"We have to address this now with a sense of urgency, which is why I was so heartened to see the recent comments by New York City Mayor and former police captain Eric Adams calling for a return to “broken windows” policing," FOP President Patrick Yoes said.
March 29, 2022
Command
New York City Going Back to Some "Broken Windows" Policing
Adams summoned Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell and Chief of Department Kenneth Corey to City Hall on Tuesday to answer for the surge in bloodshed that left 29 people wounded ahead of his planned news conference on the NYPD’s new anti-gun units, law-enforcement sources said Wednesday.
March 24, 2022
Patrol
Welcome to Kabul, USA
The parallel between the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and the precipitous withdrawal from proactive policing on American streets is astonishing—in both cases, the result is chaos.
August 20, 2021
Special Units
Portland Officers Declining Opportunity to Join Gun Violence Unit
The uniformed squad, dubbed the Focused Intervention Team, is designed to fight gun violence proactively with a patrol presence on Portland streets. The plan has been to have the team cover seven days a week to get guns off the street directed by police intelligence, identify people involved in recent shootings and “interrupt the cycle of violence.”
July 21, 2021
Patrol
Biden Announces Anti-Crime Measures, Provides Money to Police from COVID Relief Fund
Biden boasted of "historic funding for crime prevention" in the $350 billion for state and local governments, from the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, that can be used by cities to hire law enforcement officers, pay overtime, invest in technology to make law enforcement more efficient, and prosecute gun traffickers.
June 24, 2021
Patrol
Protecting Houses of Worship
Churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples make easy targets for active shooters, so the congregations need to work to prevent such attacks, prepare for them if they happen, and know how they will respond.
March 16, 2020
Technology
Fighting Crime with Surveillance Cameras
Law enforcement agencies nationwide are using public and private surveillance systems to gather evidence and arrest repeat offenders.
February 17, 2020
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