Archive for April 2025
Behavioral Communication in Interviews and Interrogations: Emotional Intelligence as a Tool
Clarification: This is a collaborative work, with one author, Rodney Parks, a veteran police official, and the other, P.S. Perkins, a communications expert. When the article below uses “I,” “me,” or “we,” it reflects the experiences and views of the law enforcement official. Otherwise, both authors have developed this approach together. Years of successful and…
Read MoreApril: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The big picture: Large language models (LLMs) have vast potential to improve policing by enhancing knowledge access, decision making, and operational efficiency. Like many other sectors of society, policing is increasingly incorporating emerging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. OpenAI released ChatGPT in late 2022 and quickly reached 100 million users in just two months. Then,…
Read MorePolice Approaches: Recruitment and Retention
Policing in the 21st century continues to struggle with a complex challenge nationwide: Fewer people want to be in law enforcement, and a number of individuals are leaving the profession. Everyone wants to solve this critical problem. Although there are many different strategies organizational leaders are implementing to help with their recruitment and retention approaches,…
Read MoreMulti-Modal Analysis of Body-Worn Camera Recordings
Wisdom and Warning – From an Unusual Source
I recently came across the following speech about policing. I’d heard it many times before, but I never recognized how profound it truly is. I’m paraphrasing it slightly here. The world grows smaller every day, and the threat of harm by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all,…
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