There are strong correlations between rising temperatures and crime rates. To keep the public safe, leaders need not only to be aware of this relationship, but also to engage peers and the public in developing solutions to the impending resource gaps.
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When fitness yardsticks accurately measure the ability to perform essential job functions, first responders are safer and more effective. Inaccurate assessments, however, can result in endangerment of life and extensive litigation.
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The rate of success for IT projects, as measured in time, budgets, and features, can be discouraging for government entities looking to invest in better infrastructure. By focusing on business value, identifying helpful features, soliciting client insight, and rethinking what is valuable, however, Agile software development methods are responsible for appreciably higher success rates.
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Use of force occurs in a relatively small number of interactions between the police and public, but the potential costs—in terms of dollars, reputations, and lives—demand that considerable time and resources be allocated toward its management.
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Climate change is expected to bring radical increases in global temperatures. This shift in weather conditions can influence human behavior and affect the work of law enforcement.
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In today’s volatile geopolitical environment, the demands placed on military training environments are growing exponentially. Commanders are struggling with significant resource constraints and resorting to extraordinary measures to accomplish their vital training mission.
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Maximum security requires by definition a “closed system” whereas maximum utility requires “openness.” Is it possible to reconcile these two extremes? Can a highly secure system actually be easy to use? The security systems of the future must be highly convenient, largely transparent to end users, fully integrated across security domains, threat aware, and able to modify security policies “on the fly” in response to changing threat environments.
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While immediate needs exist to exchange firearms authorizations and decertification data, it is becoming increasingly evident that emergency management directives will request that POST, Academy and Agency organizations be in a position to provide training, certification and skills data to facilitate effective incident response. An XML standard based upon the vital data resident within the POST organizations would lay the foundation for significant advancements in interoperability.
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As never before, law enforcement academies and trainers are challenged by the increases in workloads and the complex anti-terrorism and information sharing demands of the post-9/11 world. New initiatives are hindered by lack of clarity and budget constraints, while the threat of litigation requires academies to seek training standardization and quality controls.
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Multimedia learning objects are important components of high quality, technology-mediated instruction. Learning objects allow the student to use the content learned in a particular part of a course and; 1. demonstrate mastery of the content, 2. apply that knowledge to solving a problem, and 3. use the content in a critical thinking exercise that both demonstrates mastery and allows the student to place the content within the context of the larger topic of the course. The difficulty associated with the use of learning objects on a broad scale is that they require programming skills most professors and instructors do not possess.
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