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Why your rape statistics are likely wrong (and begging for media attention)
December 2019 Ed Claughton, President PRI Management Group Print PDF We at PRI sincerely hope, and highly suggest, that your agency pay heed to and take action on what you are about to read. Doing so may very well help it avoid disastrous media attention. The all too...
Records Unit Documentation: Dashboarding
September 2019 John Lynkiewicz, Records Manager Colorado State Patrol Print PDF Often and unfortunately when it comes to resources, law enforcement records units do not fare well in the scramble for staffing or funding. Often because of the nature of what we do as a...
Politics, Records and Facial Recognition in Criminal Justice: How it affects us all
Edward Claughton, CEOPRI Management GroupAugust 2019 Print PDF While in the gym this morning, I overheard a man and a woman discussing last night's presidential debate. One of them said, "I just think she's easier on the eyes; how the person looks, I think, is just...
Records Management Plans Are a Must
Brian Cash Director of Training June 2019 Download PDF Does your agency push a lot of paper? Print things out unnecessarily? Create files for records which are already in a system? PRI teaches a lot about the importance of establishing a records management plan. It...
Information Management in Criminal Justice. Is Yours Efficient?
Ed Claughton, President PRI Management Group Print PDF Recently I flew on Silver Airways, an airline I had never heard of. With only a couple of routes out of South Florida it’s a small airline yet, incredibly efficient. They had the only flight left to where I...
California Legislature passes major police transparency measures on internal investigations and body cameras
By LIAM DILLON LA Times SEP 01, 2018 | 3:25 PM | SACRAMENTO Endorsing a dramatic departure from decades of secrecy surrounding policing in the state, California lawmakers have moved to undo some of the nation’s strictest rules keeping law enforcement...
Minneapolis growing records backlog
By Libor Jany Star Tribune SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 The Minneapolis Police Department’s records office is weeks behind in processing public-records requests, creating a backlog that is being blamed on staffing shortages and the growing pains of implementing a new...
Bain, Vista Equity to Combine Trio of Public Safety Companies
? Kiel Porter, Bloomberg Bain Capital and Vista Equity Partners are forming a new government-services software conglomerate via a three-way merger among companies they own. Superion, which Vista acquired for $850 million last year, is combining with TriTech Software...
Baltimore’s police department is a technological disaster
SEAN GALLAGHER - 6/29/2018, 7:45 AM arsTechnica As part of the consent decree reached in the Justice Department investigation that followed the death of Freddie Gray and the ensuing unrest, an assessment team from the National Police Foundation recently completed a...
Tech Projects: planning ahead with the right people in place
Edward Claughton, President PRI Management Group July 2018 print PDF It's 2018 and yet another tech revolution is upon us. The question is will law enforcement make the changes necessary to traverse it correctly. It is astonishing how many police agencies are to this...
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