Police & Law Enforcement Programs, Policies and Issues

Internet Safety Resources and Links - Washington State Attorney General
Electronic Crime Scene Investigation: A Guide for First Responders ( 874 KB), National Criminal Justice Reference Service, Written and Approved by the Technical Working Group for Electronic Crime Scene Investigation, Department of Justice, NCJ 187736, July 2001
Best Practices for Seizing Electronic Evidence, International Association of Chiefs of Police, A joint project of the IACP and the US Secret Service - Homeland Security

Addressing Hate Crimes: Six Initiatives That Are Enhancing the Efforts of Criminal Justice Practitioners ( 515.8 KB), National Criminal Justice Reference Service, Bureau of Justice Assistance Monograph - Hate Crime Series, February, 2000
Hate Crimes Research Network - Portland State University Department of Sociology
A Policymaker's Guide to Hate Crimes ( 224 KB), National Criminal Justice Reference Service, Bureau of Justice Assistance, March 1997.
Preventing Youth Hate Crime: A Manual for Schools and Communities - U.S. Department of Education, 1998.
Responding to Hate Crimes: A Police Officer's Guide to Investigation and Prevention - International Association of Chiefs of Police

Police Pursuit: Policies and Training ( 275 KB), National Criminal Justice Reference Service, by Geoffrey P. Alpert, National Institute of Justice Research in Brief, May 1997, 8 p.
Police Pursuit and High-Speed Driving Lawsuits, by Andrew G. Cooley, Attorney at Law, and Brock Gavery, Attorney at Law, Keating Bucklin & McCormack, Inc, Police Chief, October 2006.
Police Pursuits: Reforming the Law - The Reformation of Fleeing and Attempting to Elude Police Laws: A Step Towards Deterrence, Marci S. Johns, J.D., Institute for Criminal Justice Education, Inc., n.d.(circa 2000)
Pursuit Management Task Force ( 26 KB), National Criminal Justice Reference Service, National Institute of Justice Research Preview, August 1998
To Pursue or Not to Pursue? That Is the Question, by Nichelle A. Johnson, Municipal Lawyer, January/February 2005 MRSC Library Loan

Keeping the Peace: Police Discretion and Mentally Ill Persons ( 325 KB), National Criminal Justice Reference Service, by Linda A. Teplin, National Institute of Justice Journal Issue No. 244, July 2000.
NCJRS Law Enforcement Topics - Victims: Special Populations
People with Mental Illness, by Gary Cordner, Problem Oriented Guides for Police, Problem Specific Guides for Police No. 40, U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, 2006
Police Approaches That Improve the Response to People with Mental Illnesses: A Focus on Victims
by - Melissa Reuland, Senior Research Associate, Police Executive Research Forum, Washington, D.C., and Gary J. Margolis, Ph.D., Chief of Police, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, Police Chief, November 2003
Police Response to Special Populations ( 490 KB), Police Executive Research Forum, 1997.
Providing Police Services to the Deaf, by Kathy Forrest, Project Manager II, Frederick County Department of Emergency Preparedness; Gene Mellin, Director, Frederick County Fire and Rescue; and Kim C. Dine, Chief of Police, Frederick, Maryland, Police Chief, July 2009

NCJRS Law Enforcement Topics - Profiling
Racial Profiling: A Police Manager's Perspective ( 173 KB), by Chief Russ Leach, Public Entity Risk Institute, PERI Symposium entitled Risk Management Issues in Law Enforcement, held in December 2002
A Resource Guide on Racial Profiling Data Collection Systems, Promising Practices and Lessons Learned ( 210 KB), Prepared by Northwestern University, November 2000 - National Criminal Justice Reference Center