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IDB America June 2004 Charo Quesada |
The People Take Back Their Plaza In the barrios of Bogota, a unique type of neighborhood watch is improving security and making police work more effective. |
IDB America June 2004 Mayra Buvinic |
Against the Odds Bogota proves that violence prevention can work, even in the toughest settings. |
IDB America Jul/Aug 2000 Paul Constance |
Police we deserve How one city reversed a rising spiral of crime and restored public trust in law enforcement... |
IDB America June 2004 Charo Quesada |
Community Policing: Lessons From Four Cities A new study reviews the experience of cities in Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala. |
AskMen.com |
To Protect, But Not To Serve Columbus, Ohio city council members are hearing complaints that police officers are saying citizens who are fed up with crime in their neighborhoods should move out. |
IDB America June 2004 Charo Quesada |
Sherlock Holmes Didn't Work Alone In Bogota, traditional turf battles within the police system are giving way to cooperation and a focus on results. |
Job Journal October 28, 2007 |
Career Snapshot: Police Officer Police officers can be sure of steady demand for their courage and dedication. |
BusinessWeek April 1, 2010 Susan Berfield |
Bill Bratton, Globocop He tamed crime in New York and Los Angeles. Next stop... Kabul? |
Salon.com April 14, 2001 Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Cincinnati's killer cops Black leaders want the feds to investigate the city's trigger-happy police. They shouldn't hold their breath... |
Reason July 2009 |
Neighborhood Watch What do you do when a city is too cash-strapped to pay for adequate policing? If you're Chicago, you consider giving private security guards the authority to issue tickets for littering, graffiti, parking violations, and other minor infractions. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2007 Sweet & Cass |
How to Fight Crime in Real Time New York City's Real Time Crime Center enables officers to extract information from integrated databases and send it immediately to investigators in the field. Displays are tailored to the situation at hand. |
Salon.com July 14, 2000 Howard Altman |
Ready to rumble Police violence rocks Philadelphia as anxious protesters prepare to descend on the city for the Republican National Convention. |
Salon.com July 9, 2001 David Horowitz |
Cops are not to blame Who is responsible for the recent killings of blacks in Cincinnati? Liberals and "civil rights" crusaders... |
IDB America August 2004 Charo Quesada |
Bogota at Your Service How one municipality ensures that people in poor neighborhoods have convenient access to public services. |
InternetNews September 22, 2009 |
Canada Uses IBM BI Software to Fight Crime Edmonton police are the latest to use business intelligence apps to identify crime hot spots. |
IDB America July 2004 Charo Quesada |
Citizen Auditors Bogota asks taxpayers to take responsibility for overseeing how the municipality spends its money. |
Fast Company September 2004 Keith H. Hammonds |
"Nothing Is Easy in Iraq. But You Can't Not Do It." A British brigadier on the rebuilding of Iraq's police force. |
U.S. Banker May 2011 Laura Thompson Osuri |
One Way to Cut Crime After too many robberies, Columbus Bank and Trust found a way to keep the police close and employees and customers feeling safe. |
Financial Advisor October 2009 Karen DeMasters |
A Police Matter Beacon Financial has worked to attract law enforcement clients. |
Salon.com November 1, 2000 Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Killer cops The slaying of actor Anthony Dwain Lee by a black officer is evidence that many black cops have the same prejudices as their white colleagues... |
InternetNews April 8, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Fresno Cops to Get Broadband Wireless IBM will build a next-generation communications system for real-time images and communications. |
CRM October 2010 Koa Beck |
To Predict and Serve Predictive analytics helps a police department make better use of limited resources. |
National Defense March 2009 Magnuson & Rusling |
Noted Police Chief Slams Federal-Local Partnerships The man who led the local police response to the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon hopes the new administration does a better job of coordinating counterterrorism efforts with local law enforcement. |
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 Gene Callahan & William Anderson |
The Roots of Racial Profiling Why are police targeting minorities for traffic stops? |
Reason June 2008 Radley Balko |
RateMyCop.com RateMyCop.com encourages users to rate their experiences with individual officers. |
CIO February 15, 2004 Richard Pastore |
Taking IT to the Street How the Chicago Police Department used technology to fight crime and become the first Grand CIO Enterprise Value Award winner. |
Salon.com July 26, 2000 Valeria Russ |
My son loves cops How and when do I tell him about Amadou Diallo? |
Fast Company December 1999 Anna Muoio |
His People Are as Good as Gold How Bill Daddio strives to build the nation's best police department. |
Reason November 2008 Radley Balko |
Publius Blogs In some communities, the targets of anonymous blogs are trying to crack down on their Internet critics with a vengeance. |
BusinessWeek August 1, 2005 Geri Smith |
The Mean Streets Of Nuevo Laredo Drug trafficking wars are scaring American tourists away - and eviscerating the economy. |
Reason October 2001 Rhys Southan |
DNA on Demand Scotland's Strathclyde Police don't blink twice when it comes to slighting privacy for crime detection. In March, Scotland's largest police department announced that officers would take DNA samples from everyone they arrest, no matter how minor the crime... |
AskMen.com |
The Cops Who Yell "Stop!" The mayor of a small South Carolina town has banned police officers from chasing suspects on foot. |
Salon.com August 17, 2000 Anthony York |
The cops become the issue More civil than disobedient, the marches against police brutality were as scripted as the action inside the Staples Center. |
Reason February 2005 Town & O'Toole |
Crime-Friendly Neighborhoods How "New Urbanist" planners sacrifice safety in the name of "openness" and "accessibility." |
Salon.com August 2, 2001 Jared Manasek |
Smoke signal Police in London's gritty Brixton neighborhood are losing the war on drugs, so the police chief is experimenting with not enforcing cannabis laws. |
CIO September 15, 2005 Malcolm Wheatley |
London's Cameras In the eyes of the British public, CCTV has become the police's first port of call and a high-tech crime-fighting tool. Yet police receive no special training in analyzing CCTV footage, nor any high-tech tools, a technical support officer. |
Wired May 2005 Noah Shachtman |
Spycam Force Chicago's street cops have a new kind of backup: a point-and-click surveillance network tied to a citywide crime-fighting database. |
Popular Mechanics February 18, 2010 Tyghe Trimble |
Can Sophisticated Mathematical Models Help Police Fight Crime? Is it possible to predict crimes from studying human behavior? A new paper from researchers at the University of California shows how mathematical modeling may soon lead to truly predictive police work. |
AskMen.com |
Guard Dog Drops The Ball A Eugene man fighting a home intruder to defend his mother and young children was bitten by a police dog after officers mistook him for the prowler they had been chasing through the neighborhood. |
Salon.com August 24, 2000 Andrew O'Hehir |
"NYPD: A City and Its Police" Behind the "blue wall of silence" of America's biggest and oldest police force, two authors find equal parts heroism and corruption. |
New Architect February 2003 Steve Knopper |
Freeze, E-dirtbag! ImageWare builds a rogues' gallery for the police |
Job Journal June 22, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Security Guard Protecting you and your valuables, at home or at work. |
IDB America March 2005 Charo Quesada |
Fresh Thinking About Gangs Experts already understand the factors that lead to Latin American gang-related violence; what eludes them is an effective prevention strategy. |
ifeminists September 30, 2003 George Rolph |
An Open Letter to the Police Commissioner of Great Britain As someone who mans a 24-hour help line in the UK for male victims of domestic violence, I am struck by the number of men who tell me that the police refuse to either take their complaints seriously, ignore them entirely, arrest the victim or fail to arrest the perpetrator. |
Salon.com August 16, 2000 Anthony York |
Calm before the storm? Tuesday's protests were mostly peaceful, but Wednesday's action against police brutality could get ugly. |
Salon.com October 19, 2000 Ashley Fantz |
Fatal mistake In a outrageous example of police incompetence, cops burst into the wrong home during a drug raid and kill an elderly African-American man... |
Parameters Winter 2006/2007 Gary Felicetti |
The Limits of Training in Iraqi Force Development The National Strategy for Victory in Iraq and much of the public debate surrounding it leaves the impression that additional training will go a long way toward solving the security problem and bringing our troops home. |
Reason June 2008 Radley Balko |
'30 Years of Failure' A conversation about the war on drugs with Ed Burns, co-creator of The Wire. |
Salon.com June 15, 2000 Bruce Shapiro |
Why didn't the NYPD stop the Central Park wolf pack? With Amadou Diallo, the cops went too far. In Central Park, not far enough. But guess what? It's the same problem. |
IDB America February 2006 Anascas del Rio Moncada |
A Place in Society In Colombia, two women displaced by armed conflicts become architects of social development. |