Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council

Published by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), this article presents the results of a national study examining job stress, job satisfaction, job performance, and resilience among law enforcement officers in the United States. The study found that stress was negatively related to job satisfaction for officers who had easy access to agency-based wellness programs, whether they had concerns about stigma or used the programs or not. The association between stress and job performance varied according to program access, use, and concerns about stigma associated with use. Administrators and policymakers striving to retain a high-performance police workforce may consider these results in recruiting as well as in making academy and in-service wellness training and program decisions.

Written by the National Policing Institute (NPI), this essay examines previous reform concepts and their shortfalls. It explores how human behavior is heavily influenced by incentives and disincentives and whether a strong enough reward system is in place to truly move officers from the “warrior” to the “guardian” mentality. Finally, it examines what police leaders, government officials, and policing scholars will need to do to implement, successfully evaluate, and achieve lasting reform within the communities being served. The essay proposes that a reconstruction of the way police agencies evaluate their performance should be at the center of reform efforts. The essay states that rather than determining effectiveness exclusively through crime-fighting statistics, police agencies must also incorporate assessments of how community members are treated. Within this framework, the definition of “good policing” must be reimagined. According to the essay, evidence-based policing must acknowledge a large body of research on procedural justice and recognize the critical role it plays in determining police legitimacy to implement effective reform.

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and released by the Student, Teachers, and Officers Preventing (STOP) School Violence Program , the Safer Schools Training and Technical Assistance Clearinghouse for Law Enforcement provides a one-stop shop for law enforcement and school safety professionals to access relevant training and technical assistance. The clearinghouse also features a comprehensive resource library that hosts publications, websites, trainings, webinars, videos, and podcasts aimed at addressing specific aspects related to enhancing school resource officer programs, school safety, and school climate.

Hosted by the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), this webinar is designed to teach attendees what might be available to them when they obtain records via search warrant or legal service. The webinar will explore how to take something as simple as a username on PayPal, Venmo, and Cash App and use it to identify the suspect of an investigation. A human-trafficking scenario will be explored in these open-source techniques that can be applied to any type of future investigation.

Date: Thursday, June 13, 2024
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., ET

Released by the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), this report was written to contribute to scholarship regarding suicidality in domestic terrorism. Using the Domestic Terrorism Offender Level Database (DTOLD), it explores whether domestic terrorism attacks may also be crimes of despair. The report found that domestic terrorists in general may be more suicidal than members of the general population but significantly less suicidal than mass shooters, except when domestic terrorists kill four or more people (notably, four is the number of deaths required for a shooting to meet the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s definition of a mass shooting).