Blue Ink: Police Tattoos

Tattoos have become very popular in the law enforcement and military communities. Officers who get inked often choose a tattoo of something that has great meaning to them, such as family, their faith, or a close friend. View a few examples of tattoos. Photos courtesy of Steve Winterstein of Five-O Tattoo in Elburn, Ill.

November 7, 2012

Tattoos have become very popular in the law enforcement and military communities. Officers who get inked often choose a tattoo of something that has great meaning to them, such as family, their faith, or a close friend. View a few examples of tattoos. Photos courtesy of Steve Winterstein of Five-O Tattoo in Elburn, Ill.

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Best Practices for Natural Disaster Response

How E-Signature is Helping Police Departments Achieve Their Goals

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ILEETA 2023: Trainers Speak Out on Effects of Lowering Hiring Standards

The interwoven problems of staffing shortages and lowering hiring standards have a profound impact on law enforcement training and trainers. It's unsurprising then that during ILEETA 2023, the topic was discussed at length.

ILEETA 2023: Training to Prevent the Next Uvalde

At ILEETA 2023, a seminar session—dubbed "Street Leadership - Never Again Uvalde, Texas!"—renowned law enforcement trainers taught how simple leadership at the street level can avert such failed response in future events.

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Earning Your Degree Online

Online college and university programs can help you advance your law enforcement career, but higher education success requires planning and commitment.

Best Practices for Training with Simulators

Simulators are no longer just firearms practice for officers. The provided courses can teach duty to intervene, de-escalation, dealing with mental health calls, even facing infectious diseases, or interacting with individuals on the autism spectrum.

Modern training simulators allow use of red dots and other sight systems.

DART Removes Common Barriers to Firearms Training

Digimation's DART provides options for police while overcoming barriers to training.

DART can convert any area, even small spaces, into a training range.

Recent Incidents Prompt Reminders for Officer Safety While Directing Traffic

There are myriad factors contribute to incidents in which an officer is struck by a vehicle while directing traffic—everything from weather, to the negligence/impairment of the offending vehicle's driver, to the officer's own actions—but a few basic safety strategies can mitigate the risks.

DOJ Releases Report Containing "Roadmap" Aimed at Reforming Ohio Police

The DOJ's COPS Office recently released a report containing a set of recommendations aimed at "reforming" the Columbus (OH) Division of Police amid backlash over how it handled protests in the immediate aftermath of two high-profile officer-involved shootings.

POLICE Coffee Break: The Benefits of Training Management Systems

Retired law enforcement training sergeant and Vector Solutions engineer Doug Kazensky speaks with POLICE editor David Griffith about training management systems and how they help agencies organize training information.

Raise the SCORE of Your Training Program

Progress comes with change, not complacency. Start impactful training now with SCORE.

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Columbia Southern University Achieves SACSCOC Accreditation Milestone

On Dec. 6, 2022, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) board of trustees granted institutional accreditation to Columbia Southern University. Through achieving this accreditation, CSU effectively becomes one of the most affordable, completely online, SACSCOC accredited universities in the nation, CSU says.

Congress Passes De-Escalation Training Bill

The bill that passed the House on Wednesday will amend a 1968 federal crime law to authorize $70 million in annual grant funding for law enforcement training on alternatives to the use of force that include scenario-based exercises for officers.

The Case for De-Escalation Training: Doing Right by Officers and Communities

Rather than approaching de-escalation from a strict psychological definition of personality, NDTC teaches officers to rapidly identify one’s personality by observation of visible characteristics and verbal cues.

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