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Law Enforcement’s and Community Correction’s Use of GPS

October 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Law Enforcement’s and Community Correction’s Use of GPS By Leonard A. Sipes, Jr. Brian Glover is an eight-year veteran of Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). He patrols the fifth district in northeast D.C.  A couple of years ago, he heard something about the local parole and probation authority putting criminal offenders on Global Positioning [...]

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Tags: Law Enforcement

Using Social Media to Protect Public Safety

March 5th, 2009 · 29 Comments

Using social media (audio and video podcasts) during a media campaign to convince criminal offenders with warrants to surrender resulted in 530 offenders complying with the terms of the program in Washington, D.C.

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Tags: Faith-based Initiatives · Fugitive Safe Surrender · Interviews with Offenders · Law Enforcement · Media · Reentry · What Works · social media

Offender Reentry: What it Means to the Law Enforcement Community

November 6th, 2008 · 23 Comments

By Leonard A. Sipes, Jr., Edited by Cedric Hendricks and Joyce McGinnis Please see http://media.csosa.gov  for “DC Public Safety” radio and television programs Please see www.csosa.gov for the web site for the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency Approximately 650,000 offenders are released from incarceration every year in the United States. Hundreds of thousands more are released [...]

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Tags: Law Enforcement · Reentry