@gcordner

Author of Police Administration (10th edition), co-author of Police & Society (8th edition). Blogger at Modern Policing and World Policing.

Joined February 2009
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Renewed call to action gcordner.wordpress.com/2023/…

Renewed call to action

Members of the Obama-era 21st Century Task Force on Policing (2015) have issued a “Renewed Call to Action” with 8 recommendations and 56 action steps, available here. The report notes &…

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Protest policing in France criticized worldpolicing.wordpress.com/…

Protest policing in France criticized

Police handling of recent pension protests in France has drawn heavy criticism, as reported here. One expert describes the approach taken by police as “an escalation doctrine” and a hum…

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Police powers expanded in Chile worldpolicing.wordpress.com/…

Police powers expanded in Chile

Chile, generally the safest country in Latin America, saw a 32% increase in homicides in 2022, attributed in part to Venezuelan gang violence. Over the last month, several police officers have been…

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First-responder drones gcordner.wordpress.com/2023/…

First-responder drones

Chula Vista PD in California has been one of the first agencies to utilize drones to rapidly respond to selected incidents in order to provide responding officers with “eye in the sky” …

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Met must reinvent itself worldpolicing.wordpress.com/…

Met must reinvent itself

The London Metropolitan Police recently underwent an independent review that found it to be “institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic,” as reported here. The Met Commissioner…

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Voters defeat police oversight board in Burlington, Vermont gcordner.wordpress.com/2023/…

Voters defeat police oversight board in Burlington, Vermont

Voters in Burlington, Vermont recently defeated a proposed community police oversight board, 63% to 37%, as reported here. The board would have had the authority to discipline and remove officers, …

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NIJ LEADS Scholars applications due May 1 gcordner.wordpress.com/2023/…

NIJ LEADS Scholars applications due May 1

The National Institute of Justice has posted its 2023 call for applications for the LEADS Scholars Program, as announced here. The acronym stands for Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science. Est…

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Reducing auto theft including carjacking gcordner.wordpress.com/2023/…

Reducing auto theft including carjacking

Police in Denver are implementing a vehicle tracking system that they hope will make stolen vehicle recoveries quicker and also prevent thefts, as reported here. Overall in Colorado, vehicle thefts…

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Federal government seeking input about police data collection gcordner.wordpress.com/2023/…

Federal government seeking input about police data collection

The White House and federal government are seeking input from the public and from law enforcement representatives about ways to improve data collection about policing, including reported crime and …

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Biggest art fraud in world history worldpolicing.wordpress.com/…

Biggest art fraud in world history

In what they are calling “the biggest art fraud in world history,” police in Canada have arrested 8 suspects and seized more than 1,000 paintings, prints, and other works, all believed …

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Mobile DNA identifying war dead in Ukraine worldpolicing.wordpress.com/…

Mobile DNA identifying war dead in Ukraine

There are 9 mobile DNA vans being used in Ukraine to identify war dead, as reported here, 6 provided by American philanthropist Howard G. Buffett. The mobile vans equipped with rapid DNA technology…

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ATF releases crime gun report gcordner.wordpress.com/2023/…

ATF releases crime gun report

ATF has recently issued its most comprehensive reports on firearms commerce and crime guns in 20 years, as reported here. Among other things, the reports document “a spike in the use of conve…

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Florida legislature considers protections for police chiefs gcordner.wordpress.com/2023/…

Florida legislature considers protections for police chiefs

Bills currently filed in the Florida House and Senate would provide additional job security and due process rights for chiefs of police. Of course, most police chiefs in most states “serve at…

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Crime versus perception of crime in Malta worldpolicing.wordpress.com/…

Crime versus perception of crime in Malta

Crime in Malta has decreased over the last several years but the public’s perception of criminality and safety has gotten worse, according to this interview. The country’s homicide and …

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Regulating use of facial recognition gcordner.wordpress.com/2023/…

Regulating use of facial recognition

Facial recognition technology is being used in policing today but significant issues remain about accuracy and privacy. This report from RAND reviews “policy options that fall between the ext…

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Garda strengthening international networking worldpolicing.wordpress.com/…

Garda strengthening international networking

The Garda commissioner recently visited the agency’s liaison officer in Bogota, Colombia as part of a networking trip to North and South America, as reported here. In Colombia, “discuss…

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Country rankings on risk of money laundering worldpolicing.wordpress.com/…

Country rankings on risk of money laundering

Global rankings of 128 countries on their efforts and capacities in 2022 to mitigate money laundering are available here. The countries rated best included Finland, Sweden, Iceland, and New Zealand…

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Minnesota POST tightens rules gcordner.wordpress.com/2023/…

Minnesota POST tightens rules

Minnesota’s Peace Officer Standards and Training Board has adopted several rule changes, as reported here. One new rule establishes “a ban on officers associating with or promoting the …

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2022 homicides in Latin America and the Caribbean worldpolicing.wordpress.com/…

2022 homicides in Latin America and the Caribbean

Three Caribbean nations appear to have had the most homicides per capita in 2022 in the combined Latin American and Caribbean region, as reported here. The leader was Turks and Caicos at 77.6 per 1…

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Limitations of anti-bias training gcordner.wordpress.com/2023/…

Limitations of anti-bias training

Police training aimed at reducing bias, including implicit bias, has been widely adopted over the last 10 years or so. This brief article summarizes a study that looked at 251 training sessions att…

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