Perspective: Challenges for Female Law Enforcement Leadership
A survey provides valuable insights for overcoming the common hurdles faced by women in law enforcement careers.
Leadership Spotlight: Leaders and Artificial Intelligence
In an age of increasing reliance on artificial intelligence, strong leaders will step forward and fill the gaps that only they can.
Bulletin Notes
Sergeant Tyler Gaines of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections rushed to the aid of another officer who was in an altercation with a violent suspect.
Message from the Editor
Effective leadership is vital to every organization. It can determine success versus failure, growth versus loss, enthusiasm versus indifference, and satisfaction versus discontent. It can be the deciding factor between an efficient, fully staffed department or one struggling to stay afloat.
Because differing leadership styles are so impactful on officers’ everyday lives, this issue of the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin focuses on ways leaders can discover and implement factors that motivate their personnel, stay visible even when everything runs smoothly, serve their employees by authentically developing and supporting them personally and professionally, and remain aware of and resolve existing challenges their personnel face.
We hope these articles encourage law enforcement leaders to examine their current leadership practices and their effectiveness in creating a thriving workplace.
Stephanie Lowe
Editor, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
The Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP) maintains the largest investigative repository of major violent crime cases in the United States. It collects and analyzes information about homicides, sexual assaults, missing persons, and other violent crimes involving unidentified human remains.