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NAPO receives nominations from fellow police officers, from which awardees for the Top Cops award are selected each year. The awardees are honored with an award dinner. The award ceremony advertises to sponsors as a promotional opportunity with "senior government executives, [...] and key decision makers in the varied fields of law enforcement".
The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act authorized the United States Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division to bring civil ("pattern or practice") suits against local law enforcement agencies, to rein in abuses and hold agencies accountable. [25]
When President Donald Trump was searching for a new FBI Director after firing James Comey in 2017, he wanted among other things someone who looked the part of America’s top law enforcement official.
The City of Los Angeles agreed to pay $30 million to thousands of people affected by gang injunctions. But court records show around half of the money remains unclaimed, and a federal judge ...
The term "CIT" is often used to describe both a program and a training in law enforcement to help guide interactions between law enforcement and those living with a mental illness. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) programs are local initiatives designed to improve the way law enforcement and the ...
Insurers beef up security after UnitedHealthcare CEO killing. Some companies are reevaluating their security measures in the wake of Thompson's shooting. A number of companies have scrubbed their ...
The International Association of Chiefs of Police is a not-for-profit 501c(3) organization headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. The IACP is the publisher of the Police Chief magazine, the leading periodical for law enforcement executives, and the host of the IACP Annual Conference and Exposition, the largest police educational and technology exposition in the world.
Police brutality is the use of excessive or unwarranted force by law enforcement against civilians. Police brutality involves physical or psychological harm to a person and can involve beatings, killing, intimidation tactics, racist abuse, and torture.