Every day should be law enforcement appreciation day! The daily (or nightly) grind of police work is physically and emotionally taxing. One can't unsee and unknow things. The difficult stuff officers encounter can stick with them indefinitely, sometimes showing up in...
Many departments continue to be overwhelmed by the enormous growth of digital evidence. This isn’t likely going to change in 2023. Police administrators can expect officers will encounter increasingly more digital evidence (particularly video). Is your agency being...
The increase of surveillance video doesn’t appear to be slowing. Inexpensive CCTV systems are now commonplace in just about every community. My police department saw a 424% increase in the overall number of videos officers recovered over a six-year period (2014-2019)....
Officers are collecting more digital evidence than ever before, yet only a fraction ever makes it to court. What happens to all that evidence? Should it be kept indefinitely? And if not, how do departments know when evidence can be purged? Many police departments...
Did you know… less than 5% of evidence makes it to court! 🤨 That’s a fairly important statistic if your job involves managing property and evidence. Much of the “stuff” in property rooms can be purged. The International Association for Property and Evidence (IAPE)...
