In law enforcement, active bystandership is an invaluable practice. Stepping in when a colleague is gripped by conflict is not only good...

Law enforcement are no strangers to threat and danger. It’s essential to the job. Officers sign up to confront violence and crime and...

Insight Policing is all about how to communicate effectively when we’re faced with conflict. A key skill in this is verifying – or taking...

There are many rewarding moments in law enforcement– helping victims, keeping people safe, protecting the community. But officers face...

Law enforcement officers make countless life-or-death decisions throughout their careers. To help illustrate the pattern of thinking that...

Everyday encounters like these shouldn’t be what breaks trust with the public May 9, 2023 “‘I’ve got a great respect, or had a great...

In our conflict-resolution skills training, Insight Policing: Conflict Resolution for Law Enforcement, we start off with an activity...

In this week’s newsletter, trainer Sabina Smith shares a story of how Insight Policing skills showed up in an unexpected way --...

According to the Department of Justice, nearly 425,000 youth — kids under the age of 18 — are arrested each year. Approximately 48,000...

During our road trip from DC to New England this summer, my family was pulled over by a police officer in Connecticut. We knew the likely...

The push for police reform in the wake of George Floyd has activated mandates across the country for both de-escalation and active...

According to the latest Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) count from 2011–2012, 68% of four-year colleges and universities with 2,500...

De-escalation can be a foggy term. On the one hand, it refers to gaining control over an enforcement situation that is threatening to...

During the summer protests of 2020, a crowd of angry demonstrators surrounded a police car in Memphis, Tennessee, threatening and...

In this conversation, the teams talks about a Washington Post opinion piece that shares the statistic the 400 drivers who were unarmed...

This week we watch a video of a woman resisting arrest in Austin, TX. Officers wrestle her into handcuffs, actions which are scrutinized...

Our job is to make decisions that make things better," says Chief James Small or Palmyra, WI. In order to do that officers, and by...

In today’s world of policing, the brave men and women who have taken on this profession have been placed under immense scrutiny and...

An officer carries an average of 20 pounds of equipment at any given time. On their belt hangs their duty weapon, extra magazines, Taser,...

In 1995, fresh out of a big-city police academy in the Washington, D.C., suburbs, my focus was on arresting bad guys to make my community...