A mayor's struggle to unite Memphis, how bureaucracy and bickering paralyzed Niagara Falls, whether police Chief William Bratton succeeded in changing the LAPD's culture, and more.
Minneapolis' radical approach to economic development, states take on pharmaceutical marketers, the millennials use technology to revolutionize how governments operate, and more.
Web sites try to replace newspapers in covering legislatures, Colorado's IT consolidation, replacing retiring baby boomers with more boomers, and more.
Fraud is on the rise. There is evidence that fraud has permeated virtually every government-based benefit program at the state, local and federal level. The federal government estimates that three to five percent of public assistance dollars are lost each year to fraud, and tax related identity fraud has grown 650% since 2008.
This white paper describes how developing competencies in five key area can help public safety agencies more effectively do their jobs in the face of extremely important and difficult sets of issues.