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The Guardian's Way: How the Brooklyn Center Police Department Re-Energized its Team

The National Policing Institute recently released a piece titled "The Guardian's Way: How the Brooklyn Center Police Department Re-Energized Its Team." This work dives into the story of Chief Garett Flesland when he took leadership of the Brooklyn Center Police Department during a time of crisis. The Chief focused on department-wide culture change characterized by gratitude, personal accountability, and adaptability, and utilized three guiding values to rebuild the fractured workplace culture—be professional, choose happiness, and serve proudly.

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The First Annual Howard C. Liebengood Symposium: The Evolving Law Enforcement Landscape and The First Responders' Mental Health Crisis

Registration has opened for the First Annual Howard C. Liebengood Symposium hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C. This symposium, held on September 17-18, 2025, will focus on the evolving law enforcement landscape and the first responder mental health crisis.

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NAPSPS Webinar Session – Journeys Through Public Safety: Vignettes of Leadership

In this webinar hosted by the National Association of Professional Staff in Public Safety (NAPSPS) on July 29 from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm (EDT), three accomplished leaders from diverse sectors of public safety share personal vignettes from their career journeys. From navigating early career hurdles to leading transformative initiatives, each speaker will reflect on the pivotal moments, mentors, and lessons that shaped their path to leadership. This session offers a rare, candid look at what it means to serve behind the badge—or beside it and how leadership is cultivated over time. A brief moderated Q&A will follow, offering attendees the chance to engage directly with the panelists.

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Leadership in Police Organizations (LPO) Alexandria, Virginia

Leadership in Police Organizations (LPO) is the flagship IACP leadership development training program. LPO is modeled after the training concept of dispersed leadership (“every officer a leader”) and delivers modern behavioral science concepts and theories uniquely tailored to the law enforcement environment.

The LPO program is a two-week training held over two consecutive months, with one week each month:

- Week One: July 7–11, 2025

- Week Two: August 18–22, 2025

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The National Case Closed Project's Solvability Calculator for Active Nonfatal Shooting Investigations

The National Case Closed Project developed an evidence-based solvability calculator to be used in active nonfatal shooting investigations that should improve accuracy, uniformity, and transparency in case solvability triage decision-making.

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Smart Cities: Technologies and Policy Options to Enhance Services and Transparency

Cities are using "smart city" technologies to improve public services in transportation and law enforcement, such as traffic cameras and tools like license plate readers and gunshot detection systems. While these technologies can improve service delivery, their benefits are difficult to assess, and concerns exist about limited transparency and the potential misuse of collected data. GAO identified three policy options to guide in responsibly implementing these technologies.

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OnPolicing Blog: Force Multipliers in Action: Advancing Policing Through Strategic Innovation

In NPI's latest OnPolicing blog, NPI President Jim Burch challenges us to redefine innovation. This piece reframes how we think about leadership, partnerships, and training.

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OnPolicing Blog: Fourth Amendment Limitations on DNA Collection, Procurement, and Retention

DNA has been a powerful tool for law enforcement agencies in solving crimes and pursuing new leads for cold cases. With CODIS providing agencies access to profiles obtained under federal, state, and local systems, the courts have weighed in on where individual rights and the public's interest stand.

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New RAND Resource on Critical Incidents

RAND recently released a commentary piece discussing strategies to protect against mass critical incidents. The commentary highlights the importance of having a layered defense system, which makes it harder for attackers to succeed. Additionally, it touches on the role of the community and the importance of them not only being informed on key signs of potential threats, but also on knowing where to report them.

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GunStat Toolkit: A Data-Driven Strategy to Address Violent Crime

The NPI-operated Crime Gun Intelligence Centers (CGIC) initiative released a new resource titled GunStat Toolkit. This toolkit provides agencies with guidance to support the implementation of a successful GunStat model, a data-driven management strategy focused on reducing violent crime through the identification, prosecution, and monitoring of gun offenders. This valuable resource includes model elements and processes and informs readers how GunStat can complement a Crime Gun Intelligence Center (CGIC). The toolkit also includes aids to help facilitate GunStat implementation.

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Guidebook/Tool | 2024

Preparing Law Enforcement Agencies for Embedded Clinicians

  • Community Trust and Partnerships
  • Mental Health and Crisis Response

Report | 2023

Dispatching Community Responders to 911 Calls

  • Crime and Violence Response
  • Community Trust and Partnerships
  • Mental Health and Crisis Response
  • Responding to Mass Critical Incidents

Guidebook/Tool | 2023

911 Dispatch Call Processing Protocols: Key Tools for Coordinating Effective Call Triage

  • Mental Health and Crisis Response

Guidebook/Tool, Webpage | 2023

Community-Driven Crisis Response: A Workbook for Coordinators

  • Community Trust and Partnerships
  • Mental Health and Crisis Response

Guidebook/Tool | 2023

Law Enforcement Response to People with Developmental Disabilities: Steps for Deflection or Pre-Arrest Diversion

  • Community Trust and Partnerships
  • Mental Health and Crisis Response

Guidebook/Tool | 2023

Rethinking the Police Response to Mental Health-Related Calls: Promising Models

  • Community Trust and Partnerships
  • Mental Health and Crisis Response

Report | 2023

Evaluating the Utility of Sobering Centers: Analyses of Police and Sobering Centers Across Five Jurisdictions

  • Crime and Violence Response
  • Community Trust and Partnerships
  • Mental Health and Crisis Response
  • Stops, Searches, and Arrests

Guidebook/Tool, Report, Research Brief | 2023

Assessing the Impact of Crisis Intervention Teams

  • Community Trust and Partnerships
  • Mental Health and Crisis Response
  • Use of Force

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