Critical Dispatch is a podcast for policing and anyone interested in policing. Brought to you by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), this ...
Mass Casualty Events: Lessons to be Learned from New Orleans
In the aftermath of the brutal attack on Bourbon Street New Year’s Day that killed 14 people and injured dozens more, host Jeff Pegues speaks with Ronal Serpas, former Superintendent of Police in New Orleans.Although believed to be acting alone, the assailant is said to have been inspired by ISIS. Serpas explains the flow of information from federal and state levels to local police departments saying, “Police departments in this country should be aware that there are people in other countries who ideologically hate us and want to hurt us.”Regarding the alleged mass murderer’s lone wolf status, Serpas adds, “The federal government does have examples working with state and local or independently, when they do disrupt events that are going to be a terroristic ordered event. The point is in this one, maybe there just wasn't that information available.”Serpas and Pegues discuss the chain of command in response to terrorist attacks and where the assets and resources exist to deter these types of attacks in the future.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Lessons Learned from the Parkland and Pulse Mass Shootings
There have been 83 school shootings in 2024 with the latest being the shooting in Madison, Wisconsin where a 15-year-old girl killed a teacher and a student, and also injured six others. Since the pandemic when schools were largely shut down, there has been a stark increase in mass shootings nationwide, with over 500 mass shootings across the country, as of December 25 according to Gun Violence Archive.Host Jeff Pegues speaks with Orange County Sheriff John Mina, who was the Orlando Police Chief when the Pulse shooting happened in 2016, where 49 people were murdered and more than 50 others injured. “[The Pulse Nightclub attack] did start as an active shooter type of situation, but then quickly morphed into a barricade, but also there was a terrorism nexus as well as the threat of explosives…The shooter was threatening to blow up half a city block and everyone inside or around the nightclub at Pulse,” says Sheriff Mina.Then, you will hear from Max Schachter, whose son Alex was murdered in the Parkland School shooting in 2018. Schacter says, “I know what these families are going through and having your child predecease you in a mass shooting, there is nothing worse than that.”Both Mina and Schacter share lessons learned from these terrible tragedies and offer their perspectives on the best practices needed to minimize and mitigate mass shootings.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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URGENT: Recruitment and Retention Crisis in American Policing
70% of agencies surveyed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) are experiencing increased difficulty in recruiting new officers compared to five years ago. The disturbing trend is most pronounced in the Midwest (81%) and the Northeast (97%). The New York City Police Department alone saw 4,000 officers leave in 2022, the highest number since the September 11 attacks. Host Jeff Pegues, speaks with Megan Stoltz, the senior program manager at the International Association of Chiefs of Police, as well as Ronal Serpas, formerly the New Orleans Police Department superintendent and former police chief of the Washington State Police, who both worked on the 2024 survey of police agencies. Stoltz and Serpas highlight important strategies for stemming the tide of retirees and increasing the flow of new recruits.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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EXCLUSIVE: A New Policing Code of Ethics Distributed to Police Departments
In an exclusive interview with host Jeff Pegues, Chief Doug Shoemaker (Ret.), and former member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Executive Board and one of the leaders of the working group that revised the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics, delineates why for the first time in 67 years the Policing Code of Ethics has been revised, and the importance behind the new Policing Code of Ethics. Stressing the totality of policing, Shoemaker explains that law enforcement is only one of the many functions of effective policing. “When you step back from that term and look at everything that police truly do in their daily routine, their response to calls for service, …very little of it actually involves what I'll call ‘law enforcement’”, says Shoemaker. “When you look at the daily routine of an officer in any community, anywhere across the United States, in Canada, across the world…a lot of the things that we deal with have nothing to do with violations of the law.” See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Protection and Prevention: Political Candidates, Elected Officials and Political Violence
In the aftermath of two assasination attempts of former President Donald Trump, former Seattle Police Chief, Boston Police Commissioner, and Massachusetts Secretary of Security Kathleen O'Toole analyzes the critical role local, county, and state police forces play when complementing federal agencies for the security of Presidential candidates.Then, crowd behavior and policing expert Professor Clifford Stott, explains the science behind the psychology and dynamics of crowd behavior that is critical to the prevention of mass violence during the election season.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Critical Dispatch is a podcast for policing and anyone interested in policing. Brought to you by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), this podcast gives the policing profession a platform to tell its story. Each episode will showcase how the IACP is working with the profession to help make communities safer; and the officers who protect and serve safer. On this podcast, policing practitioners and experts will talk about what they do, how they do it, and why it matters.
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