June 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Download Full PDF Press Release Here As a result of the continued effort to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, officials from the state of New Jersey have cancelled August 2020 events scheduled at the Atlantic City Convention Center. The New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police and Police Security Expo Management (Sitework Associates, Inc.) have been informed by the New Jersey Department of Emergency Management that the State of New Jersey has exercised their option to…

Administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the Public Safety Officers’ Benefits (PSOB) Program provides death benefits to the eligible survivors of public safety officers who are fatally injured in the line of duty; disability benefits to public safety officers catastrophically injured in the line of duty; and education benefits to the eligible spouses and children of fallen and catastrophically injured officers. With the recent outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease or COVID-19, America’s law enforcement officers, firefighters and…

Twenty-eight shootings in 2019 have been designated as active shooter incidents. The report, Active Shooter Incidents in the United States in 2019, focuses on active shooter incidents – a specific type of shooting situation. The FBI defines an active shooter as one or more individuals actively engaged in killing, or attempting to kill, people in a populated area. Implicit in this definition is the shooter’s use of one or more firearms. The active aspect of the definition inherently implies that…

Crime scene bullets are often deformed from collisions which can make direct comparison difficult. Now, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new algorithm which makes matching them more accurate by dividing the markings on deformed bullets into segments and correlating those segments with reference bullets. You can read the full NIST article at https://tinyurl.com/st9waa8